From: "R.Seymour" <switch@...>
Date: 2002-04-20T03:09:32+09:00
Subject: Re: String to method name

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 13:25:22 -0400, ts wrote:

>>>>>> "R" == R Seymour <switch@atdot.org> writes:
> 
> R> <<<badGuyType>>>[badGuyShow] = badGuy
> 
>  You have not given enough information. Imagine this example
> 
>    def change_monkey(gt, gs, g)
>       # how do you want to access, in this method, the local variable 
>       # mutantMonkey, with only `gt', `gs', `g'
>    end
> 
>    badGuyType = "mutantMonkey"
>    badGuyShow = "powerPuffGirls"
>    badGuy = "Mojo Jojo"
>    SenselessNames = Struct::new( :powerPuffGirls ) mutantMonkey =
>    SenselessNames.new
> 
>    change_monkey(badGuyType, badGuyShow, badGuy)
> 
> 
> 
>  In #change_monkey it's not possible to access the local variable
>  `mutantMonkey' (because it's defined outside of the def)
> 
> 
> 
> Guy Decoux

I realize that, but I'm not going to do any changing.  The gist of what
I'm trying to do is this, have a something like this in perl:

SenslessNames{badGuyType}{badGuyShow} = badGuy;

So you could do a lookup by type and show and get a given badGuy string
returned.  Can you do multidimensional (double key) hashes in Ruby?  I
feel like there should be some obvious way of doing this that would
totally flip the script, jump outside the box, subvert the paradigm, etc.
etc.  :)  Thanks for your patience, even if you're out of it.  

-Rich