From: Mark Hubbart <discord@...>
Date: 2004-05-02T03:08:36+09:00
Subject: Re: def [](v) xx; return yy; end # returned value is ignored !?


On May 1, 2004, at 3:59 AM, Kristof Bastiaensen wrote:

> It may be interesting to be able to access variables indirectly
> using binding() (outside eval).
> for example:
>
> a = 2
> binding().local_get(:a)
> => a == 2
>
> binding().local_set!(:a, 5)
> => a == 5
>
> And also Binding::ivar_set!, Binding::ivar_get and
> Binding::get_self

or:

   binding.local(:a) = 23  #=> 23
   a                       #=> 23
   binding.local(:a) += 19 #=> 42
   a                       #=> 42

also:

   binding.eval{ self }    #=> main

... would be nice. I dislike having to eval strings when I need to do 
some work within a certain binding; and I suppose that code blocks will 
compile nicer, especially when we get a VM.