From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-08-12T08:57:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Beginner's question: assigning same value to many variables

Hi --

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Mark Van Holstyn wrote:

> or you could do
>
> %w{ a b c d e f g h i j }.each {|v| eval "#{v}=''" }

That won't work; they'll go out of scope.  Actually out of two scopes:
the eval scope, and the #each block scope.


David

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