From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-08-12T08:48:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Beginner's question: assigning same value to many variables

On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 08:45:43AM +0900, Suraj N. Kurapati wrote:
> 
> Mark Van Holstyn wrote:
> > %w{ a b c d e f g h i j }.each {|v| eval "#{v}=''" }
> 
> Isn't that considered _evil_? Using eval on a string, that is.

Maybe we should call it "evil" instead of "eval", then.

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