From: Philip Mak <pmak@...>
Date: 2002-06-03T08:27:04+09:00
Subject: Re: $a = 5; $b = 'a'; print $$b

On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 08:08:29AM +0900, Philip Mak wrote:
> I tried eval(@key = vals[key]) and eval(@key) = vals[key] but those
> didn't evaluate correctly.

I think I got it.

class Series
    attr_accessor :sid, :handle, :name
    def initialize(vals)
        vals.each_key { |key|
            eval("@" + key + "= vals[key]")
        }
    end
end

A bit kludgy looking (I'm porting something from Perl, and it abused
the fact that classes are hashes in Perl) but it works.