From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-07-22T04:31:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread-local global variables?


On Jul 21, 2008, at 1:23 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> he closest approximation is thread-locals:
>
> thread = Thread.current
> thread[:my_var] = "value"
>
> (I've often thought it would be nice to have a syntax for per-thread  
> globals, like $_x or something.)



class Module
   def thattr name
     module_eval <<-code
       def #{ name }() Thread.current[#{ name.to_s.inspect }] end
       def #{ name }=(v) Thread.current[#{ name.to_s.inspect }] = v end
     code
   end
end

or similar is what i use

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