From: Its Me <itsme213@...>
Date: 2004-04-13T01:49:15+09:00
Subject: global variable and dynamic binding: question

CONTEXT:
I am working on some code for dynamic binding in Ruby.
    binding (what_to_bind_and_to_what) {
        # all code here (nested calls included) sees bindings above
    }
    # bindings revert here to previous values
    # code here sees bindings that existed prior to the binding(...) above.

However, instead of the usual practice of binding a variable:
    binding (:var, value) {
        # all code here (nested calls included) sees :var as bound to value
    }

I want to bind an attribute of an object
    binding (object, accessor, value) {
        # all code here (nested calls included) sees object.accessor ==
value
    }

Reasoning: Ruby is all objects. References to most (all?) non-local
variables should correspond to attribute access on some object, if you treat
things like hash[key] as sugar for hash.get_attr(key).

QUESTION:
Do global variables in Ruby correspond to attributes on some object? Is
there a way to get hold of that object and find or define accessors for
those variables? Most specifically, if that object is referred to as
_globals_, is there a way to define:
    def _globals_.get_attr (global_symbol)
and
    def _globals_.set_attr (global_symbol, value)

Thanks!