From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2006-01-01T00:37:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Method for turning strings into code

Christian Neukirchen wrote:
> Erik Veenstra <pan@erikveen.dds.nl> writes:
>
> 
>>>>What is the Ruby technique for turning strings into
>>>>executable code?
>>>
>>>Via one of the various forms of eval.
>>
>>Uh, well, that's not the right answer. Eval evaluates
>>(=executes) a string. It doesn't turn a string into executable
>>code (=compile).
> 
> 
> Wrap it in a lambda, then.

If I have a string in a file, would we say it was executable code?  Or 
does loading it into the Ruby interpreter make it executable code?


What are the differences among

   require 'my-file-of-strings'


   load 'my-file-of-strings'

and

   eval( IO.read( 'my-file-of-strings' ) )



James
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