From: csn <cool_screen_name90001@...>
Date: 2006-02-05T04:10:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Extract hash into local variables?

Thanks for the replies. I also found this bit of code:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/41812

Which is similar to Scott's 'instance_variable_set' above:

def extract(hash)
  hash.each do |key,value|
     eval "$#{key} = #{value.inspect}"
  end
end

Maybe it's possible to rewrite this into something inside of a function 
which only sets local variables:

def foo(args=>{:a=>1, :b=>2, :c=>3})
  for key, value in args # or for args[0..args.length] ?
    eval "#{key} = #{value.inspect}"
  end

  puts a, b, c
end

I'm surprised there's not an easy and simple way too ;(. I read in 
Programming Ruby that named arguments are planned for Ruby 2.0.

csn

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