From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-08-12T09:06:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Beginner's question: assigning same value to many variables

On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 08:57:37AM +0900, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
> 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.

. . . which is great if you're trying to construct a closure, but not so
great otherwise.

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