From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2005-10-21T20:11:58+09:00
Subject: Re: define_class and get_class

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 07:45:07PM +0900, Mushtaq Ahmed wrote:
> name = "A"
> eval "class #{name}; end"
> klass = Object.const_get(name)
> klass.class_eval do
>   def say_hi
>     p "hi"
>   end
>   .
>   .
> end
> klass.new.say_hi

This is unnecessary.

  A = Class.new
  A.class_eval do
    def say_hi
      p "hi"
    end
  end

And as of 1.8, we can now also write:

  A = Class.new do
    def say_hi
      p "hi"
    end
  end

Paul