From: Jim Menard <jimm@...>
Date: 2001-08-07T00:00:36+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19218] Re: symbols for global constants

stephen.hill@motorola.com (Steve Hill) writes:

> irb > factory ("String".intern, "hello")
> NameError: undefined method `new' for :String:Symbol
> ...
> 
> Does anybody have any idea how to achieve this functionality?

irb > factory(eval("String"), "hello")

Jim
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