From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-03-04T23:45:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11973] Re: newbie eval question

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:11965] newbie eval question"
    on 01/03/04, Colin Steele <colin@ska.webg2.com> writes:

|I want a piece of eval'd code to create a local variable in the
|eval'ers context...  How do I do that?

Ruby's local variables are treated statically (i.e. compile time), so
that things added later by eval are invisible from code outside of
eval().

try:

        foo = 0
	eval("foo=7")
	puts foo


Or
	eval("foo=7")
	puts eval("foo")
							matz.