From: Paul Hepworth <paul@...>
Date: 2006-07-08T01:23:41+09:00
Subject: Re: hyphens in variable names

Robert Klemme wrote:
> 2006/7/7, Paul Hepworth <paul@hepworthinc.com>:
>> Example XML:
>> Example Ruby :
>>
>> for tlist in object.tree-lists
>>  ...
>> end
>>
>> Error would be:
>>
>> NoMethodError in TreeController#importproject
>> undefined method `tree' for #<TreeLib::Record:0x39171e8>
> 
> Either use method send or use another tool to work with XML 

Are you referring to something like:
object.send('tree-list')

I did a quick search, but have not tried it yet.

> or use
> another way to access objects (if this lib provides one, maybe
> object["tee-list"] or object[:tree-list]).

The tree-lists and tree-list are both hashes, but for some reason I 
still get exceptions. I will keep playing with it. Surely I am not the 
only one that has run into this problem.

Thanks for your help!

> 
> Kind regards
> 
> robert


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