On 8/28/05, Brian Schröäer <ruby.brian / gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28/08/05, David Brady <ruby_talk / shinybit.com> wrote:
> > Okay, one more question from a C++ leopard trying to change his spots:
> >
> > I want to set up a program that uses some predefined values to determine
> > its logic.  For example, a method could analyze some data and return
> > "Good", "Fair", "Poor", or "Out of Bounds" based on a set of
> > thresholds.  I want to be able to refer to these values by name in my
> > code, so constants or symbols make a good choice here.  But I also want
> > to build a sort of rule set around these values: some function returns
> > values in the range of (0.0..1.0) and I want to be able to say that 0.8
> > is the minimum score for "Good", etc.  I also want the word "Good"
> > stored in a specific single place so that I don't make any typos each
> > time I need to print the description.
> >
> > In C++, I would use an enum for each of the values, then build arrays of
> > floats and strings indexed by those enums to hold the thresholds and
> > descriptions.
> >
> > What's the Ruby idiom for this?
> >

Try this link:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/150439

See if it helps

pth