From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2007-10-01T02:29:05+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Probable Iterations (#141)

On 9/30/07, Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@ameritech.net> wrote:
> On Sep 30, 2007, at 9:32 AM, Jes�s Gabriel y Gal�n wrote:
>
> > $compare_types = {"at_least" => :>=, "exactly" => :==,
> > "no_more_than" => :<=,
> >                   "more_than" => :>, "less_than" => :<}
>
> <snip>
>
> > My question about main is the following: if you check my code, I have
> > a variable ($compare_types) I need to use both in the validate block
> > for an option and in the run method. Is there a better way to achieve
> > this than a global variable?
>
> I suggest making it a constant.
>
> COMPARE_TYPES = { "at_least" => :>=, "exactly" => :==, "no_more_than"
> => :<=,
>                    "more_than" => :>, "less_than" => :< }
>
> Regards, Morton

Thanks for the tip. Didn't realize the scope of constants :-)
This looks much better to me.

Jesus.