From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-02-22T05:27:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Where does instance_eval _magically_ set the variable to?

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Andrew Chen <hangfei@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jeri,
>
>
>  > How about:
>  > load 'param.txt'
>  >
>
>  Load doesn't get the variable into the current namespace.  Maybe I
>  used it wrong?

Nope, you didn't.  I'm sure there's a reason for that; probably to
prevent accidental corruption of namespace.  If you must use load,
you'll have to build methods in the loaded file instead of
variables...

def name; 'John'; end

...which may or may not work for you.

I suggest going the YAML route.  I suppose there are other ways to
serialize data, too.

Todd