From: David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>
Date: 2004-10-14T01:25:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Sharing variables across methods

Warren Brown wrote:
> MyCGI = CGI.new('html3')
> MyConn = PGconn.connect(...)
> 
> def foo
>   MyCGI.exec(...)
>   MyCGI.out { ... }
> end

Sigh. Now why didn't I think of that? My mind is so used to thinking 
that constants can only be used for simple things like 'Foo = 3'.

Thanks!

>     A better, but much more verbose way would be to instantiate a
> singleton class for your globals:
> 
> require 'singleton'
> 
> class Globals
>   include Singleton
>   attr_accessor(:cgi,:conn)
> end
> 
> Globals.instance.cgi = CGI.new('html3')
[snip]

Nah... that is _so_ much typing and not significantly better than $cgi :-)

-- 
dave