Re: [Pharo-users] Casting a string as an instance variable.

On 09 Jan 2015, at 18:21, sergio_101 <sergio.rrd@gmail.com> wrote:

I would like to do something like:

MyObject updateWIth: aDictionary.

then, inside the object, treat the keys as instance variables, and the values as values.. and do something like:

(key1 asInstanceVariable(??)): value1.

this seems like it should be possible, but i am just not getting it.

any ideas?

the magic is #instVarNamed:put: self instVarNamed: key1 put: value1 (keep in mind that this is slower than direkt access of instance variables) Marcus