From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-07-15T19:15:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17878] Re: Creating methods on the fly

On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, HarryO wrote:

> [I wrote:]
> > At any point (inside or outside a class definition), you could do:
> >
> >   meth = "talk"   # using string interpolation just to illustrate
> >   output = "hi"
> >   Object.module_eval <<-EOE
> >     def #{meth}
> >       puts "#{output}"
> >     end
> >   EOE
>
> Just out of interest, what's the difference between using "eval %{ ...}"
> and a "here" document as you've suggested?

None -- I just use the here document out of habit for multi-line evals.


David

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