From: zuerrong <zuerrong@...>
Date: 2011-08-19T16:03:49+09:00
Subject: Re: switch string to object

2011/8/19 Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com>:

>
> hello, in this case, is a variable. Notice that you cannot assign `hello`,
> *itself* to a variable. Only the object that `hello` is pointing to (the
> string `"world"`)
>
> Anywhere you use hello, it will be implicitly dereferenced. It is the same
> as using the object that it is pointing to. So that means you simply need to
> do `puts hello` and it will print "world"
>


So, no way to translate a string to a variable name? Thanks.