From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-02-07T11:56:56+09:00
Subject: Re: setting an instance variable

Hi,

At Fri, 7 Feb 2003 05:14:35 +0900,
Chris Pine wrote:
> 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:

No methods like Module#const_set for instance variables.

>   str = 'var_name'
>   val = ['string in an array']
> 
>   eval "@#{str} = #{val}"  #  Is there another way to do this?

Using `val' directly instead of #{val} would be better.

-- 
Nobu Nakada