From: "Anders Engström" <aengstrom@...>
Date: 2004-05-10T21:23:55+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR Suggestion: Binding#eval

* Bill Atkins <dejaspam@batkins.com>:
> I propose that the following method be added to Ruby:
>
> class Binding
>     def eval str
>         Kernel.eval str, self
>     end
> end
>
> This makes eval'ing code in a given binding more OO.  So code like
>
> eval "myvar = 120", binding
>
> becomes:
>
> binding.eval "myvar"
>
> which is more in keeping with the general Ruby way, IMHO.
>

Agreed - good proposal. That's exactly the way I tried to do it before
looking at the rdoc's (element of least surprise).

//Anders

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