From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2002-07-19T00:29:13+09:00
Subject: Re: How to name a variable after another variable's value?


--- Kurt Euler <keuler@portal.com> wrote:
> All-
> 
> Is there a way to name a variable partly after the value of some
> other variable:
> 
> I tried to do something like this:
> 
> 	greeting_no = "2"
> 	sp#{greeting_no}_greeting = 'Hello'
> 
> ...with the idea of making 2nd line equivalent to writing:
> 
> 	sp2_greeting = "Hello"
> 
> ...but this didn't work.


There's always eval, but... I have to ask; why do [you think] you
need this?  I ask my question only semi rhetorically, because
whenever I thought I needed something like that, I typically found
that I was thinking about the problem wrong.  In other words, a
design smell that led to a code smell.

You might also consider an array, and index by "greeting_no".

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