From: Mohammad Khan <mkhan@...>
Date: 2004-10-14T00:19:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Sharing variables across methods



On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 11:08, David Garamond wrote:
> When writing short scripts (several pages long) I often want to share 
> some variables (like CGI object, DB connection object) in several 
> methods. I often use globals for this:
> 
>   $cgi = CGI.new('html3')
>   $conn = PGconn.connect(...)
> 
>   def foo
>     $conn.exec(...)
>     $cgi.out { ... }
>   end
> 
> When I don't want to see all those dollar signs, I use a wrapper method:
> 
>   $_cgi = CGI.new('html3')
>   def cgi; $_cgi end
> 
>   def foo
>     cgi.out { ... }
>   end
> 
> But it still looks ugly to me. Any suggestion to make it more elegant?


How about to keep all your methods in a module or class.
And use accessors.


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