grabbing value of a variabe by its name?
Randal L. Schwartz
merlyn at stonehenge.com
Thu Jul 25 16:07:45 UTC 2002
>>>>> "Ragnar" == Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <ragnar at linalco.com> writes:
>> Some languages (Perl, I think, and Logo I am sure) have a trivial
>> notation for this kind of thing. But that isn't always a good idea and
>> I am glad that Smalltalk makes such a dangerous thing possible yet
>> hidden where it is unlikely to be accidently abused.
Ragnar> perl, php and tcl, of the ones I know.
And it's evil magick. The kind of which I will rip out if I'm ever
forced to maintain your code. If I don't just get frustrated and
erase your code and start over when forced to maintain it.
Please. Most of the business cost of code is *maintenance*, not
*development*. If you do tricks like you've asked, you've just
shot yourself in your future foot.
Pick a different strategy. Please.
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