Implementation of Binding#[]= and #[]

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IIRC the RCR for Binding#= and Binding# was accepted a long time ago,
but I’ve never seen it implemented. Of course it’d be better to see it
done in C, but in the meantime…

class Binding
def =(name, val)
var = “_magic#{Time.new.to_i}#{rand(100000)}”
setter = eval(“proc {|#{var}| #{name} = #{var}}”, self)
setter.call(val)
val
end

def [](name)
    eval(name, self)
end

end

Comments?

I have failed to find ‘prior art’ for this ;), but I don’t think I’m
the first one to think of it.

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