perfect! speed is not a huge issue, in that this will just be a set of methods that build data one time (sort of like a rails migration) and it will not be run again..
thanks! On Fri Jan 09 2015 at 4:29:04 PM Marcus Denker <marcus.den...@inria.fr> wrote: > > > On 09 Jan 2015, at 18:21, sergio_101 <sergio....@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 > > > > > > > >
