From: Frisco Del Rosario <frisco@...>
Date: 2008-04-30T16:20:07+09:00
Subject: Dynamic class instantiation by iteration

I'm curious as to why the following does not create three instances of 
class Cat:


class Cat
   def initialize(name)
      @name = name
   end
end

toons = ["Felix", "Garfield", "Heathcliff"]

toons.each {|t| t = Cat.new(t)}  


In irb, the last input and output are:

irb(main):008:0> toons.each {|t| t=Cat.new(t)}
=> ["Felix", "Garfield", "Heathcliff"]

which I don't understand.