From: Chris Morris <chrismo@...>
Date: 2001-11-03T08:54:36+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24237] RE:  Too much eval evil? (tell me why I shouldn't do this)

> That's all well and good if you know up front that you'll only have
> three arrays to deals with, but if you don't....  My idea was to
> create the cartesian product function dynamically and to an
> instance_eval of it.  I present the code below.  Please let me know if
> this is a crazy idea or not and also present alternatives:

I've done something similar without doing any evals. It took a bit more than
I thought up front, but I think it read better than your example. Right now,
I'm typing one-handed here while feeding one of my baby boys, so this is all
you get for the moment. <g> ... maybe it'll spur you on to other ideas...

Chris