From: stephen O'D <stephen.odonnell@...>
Date: 2008-07-02T00:37:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Dynamic Variables

On Jul 1, 1:50 pm, Gregory Seidman <gsslist+r...@anthropohedron.net>
wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 06:45:48PM +0900, Marc Heiler wrote:
> > Is there any way in ruby to create dynamic variables?
>
> > counter = 52
> > box#{counter} = "cat and dogs"
>
> > There would be then a new variable
> > box52
>
> > Note that this is not a question whether someone should do it or not -
> > this is solely whether it is doable or not. Until today I thought it is
> > somehow possible with eval but I failed, so I assume it is not possible.
>
> I'm going to give you exactly what you didn't ask for: why this is a bad
> idea. This is a discussion about Perl rather than Ruby, but it remains
> relevant:http://perl.plover.com/varvarname.html
>
> See the subsequent parts of the series for further discussion.
>
> --Greg

Here here - I remember reading that article way back - the basic point
of it is that if you want to create a variable on the fly, it probably
means you should be using a Hash.