From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2007-06-15T08:48:43+09:00
Subject: Reasonable practice?

It the following reasonable? How thread safe is it?

  class X
    attr :type

    def initialize(ary)
     @ary = ary
    end

    def go
      @ary.each { |x|
        @type = x
        run
      }
    end

    def run
      puts type
    end

  end

  X.new(['a', 'b', 'c']).go

Is changing the instance variable through each iteration a bad idea?
Of course I could pass the type to #run as an argument, but I'm
experimenting with the concept of "service points" and was wondering
if type could safely be one in this case. My alternative to keep type
as a serve point is to create a Runner class that took type as its
initialize argument, but that seems code heavy.

Thanks,
T.