From: Johan Holmberg <holmberg@...>
Date: 2003-09-25T02:45:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Setting "variable" global variable ?


On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, messju mohr wrote:
>
> or simply:
>
> def global_variable_set(name, val)
>    eval "$#{name} = val"
> end
> global_variable_set("foo", [1, 2, 3])
>
> but the original question was how to do it *without* the eval.
>

I think it is quite "ok".
At least there is no extra copying (or serialization) of "val"
as in my original example.

I didn't realize that the eval would "see" the value of "val",
but apparently it does.

But I'm still interested in a solution without "eval".

Thanks for the answers soo far,
/Johan Holmberg