Re: [jed-users] setting programming style

["Klaus Schmid" <klaus.schmid@xxxxxx>]

I wrote:
> Is there any way to avoid eval when assigning to a variable only known by
> it's name string (like with associative arrays)?

define assbyname( keyword, value)
{
   if ( keyword == NULL) return @value= $1;
   if ( is_defined( keyword) >= 0)
     error( "unallowed keyword in "+_function_name);
   
   $1= value;
   eval( "assbyname(,&"+keyword+")");
}

Improvements welcome :)

Klaus


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