From: ts Date: 2001-10-20T21:54:02+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:22827] Re: Creating variables with dynamic names ? >>>>> "j" == jweirich writes: j> Others have pointed out ways of doing this in Ruby. I thought I would j> mention that this is rather questionable practice to begin with (even j> in Perl). I think Mark-Jason Dominus explained it best in a three j> part article at ... http://perl.plover.com/varvarname.html Well, not the right mailing list for this, but I agree with you. The only interest in perl is when you want to work with the STASH, in all other cases it's a bad practice like explained in this article Guy Decoux