From: "John W. Long" <ng@...>
Date: 2006-09-11T06:07:25+09:00
Subject: Re: patching strings together to make a variable

Sy Ali wrote:
> The imaginary code would be:
> 
> ab = "pass"
> puts ("a" + "b").to_variable

I've occasionally used something like this with methods. For instance, I 
recently wrote an Exporter that worked something like this:

class Exporter
   def export(format=:yaml)
     method = "export_#{format}"
     if respond_to?(method)
       send(method)
     else
       raise "invalid format"
     end
   end

   private

     def export_yaml
       ...
     end

     def export_xml
       ...
     end
end

Not sure what you are doing, but perhaps a method oriented solution 
would work better.

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