From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2005-01-17T23:01:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating an instance from a variable

Peter Hickman wrote:

> I have a class like this:
> 
> class Builder
>    def Builder.create( klass, data )
>        return klass.new(data)
>    end
> end
> 
> I want to call it as:
> 
> x = Builder.create( "Fred", data )

Why don't just do  x = Builder.create(Fred, data)?