From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-03-31T23:07:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:02296] Re: setter() for local variables

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:02295] Re: setter() for local variables"
    on 00/03/31, ts <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> writes:
|
|Y>       def []=(k,v)
|Y>         @tbl[k] = v
|Y>       end
|
| This mean that the whole database is in memory (and not on the disk), no ?

By this proof-of-concept code, yes.  You can do like:

       def []=(k,v)
         @tbl[k] = v
         @db[::Mashal::dump(k)] = ::Mashal::dump(v)
       end

I'm not sure if it's better.

							matz.