From: Ben Zealley <transhumanist@...>
Date: 2006-07-21T03:35:11+09:00
Subject: Using .each with constructors

Is there a nice elegant way of creating several named objects of the
same class? I naively tried

a,b,c,d = 0
[a, b, c, d].each { |o| o = SomeClass.new }

and found that while they get initialised inside the block, they get
destroyed leaving it. I can't believe

a = SomeClass.new
b = SomeClass.new
etc.

is the best way to do it. I can populate an array, but let's
hypothesise that for reasons relating to irritating corporate coding
standards, the variables need specific names... ;)

Thoughts appreciated! Cheers

-- 
Ben