From: Chris Pine <nemo@...>
Date: 2003-02-07T05:14:35+09:00
Subject: setting an instance variable

Silly question:

If I have a string `str', is there a way to set an instance variable with
that name other than evaling a string?  For example:

  str = 'var_name'
  val = ['string in an array']

  eval "@#{str} = #{val}"  #  Is there another way to do this?

  p @var_name  # -->  ['string in an array']

Just curious if it's possible,

Chris