From: David Naseby <naseby@...>
Date: 2005-05-16T10:05:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Class.forName ?

On 5/16/05, baalbek <rcs@bgoark.no> wrote:
> In Java there is a construct like this:
> 
> Class clazz = Class.forName("Person");
> 

irb(main):001:0> class A; def initialize; puts 'in A'; end; end
=> nil
irb(main):002:0> a = eval("A.new")
in A
=> #<A:0x2ad3400>
irb(main):003:0> a = Module.const_get("A").new
in A
=> #<A:0x2ad02c8>

Lots of other ways, I'm sure.


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David Naseby
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