From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-07-27T06:53:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Automagic class prototyping


On Jul 26, 2006, at 1:40 AM, Aleks Kissinger wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestions.  The problem with the rescue on NameError
> technique is the exception gets thrown before we're actually in the
> method body of allow, since the offender is a parameter.  I dig the
> idea of combining allow and later, but it gets a little uglier since I
> really need allow to take multiple args...
>
> allow {[ClassA, ClassB, OpC]}
>
> However, thats nicer looking than some of the other alternatives.  If
> there was some sort of hook or metaprogramming magic that would delay
> executing class bodies until everything was defined, that would be
> ideal, but that might be stretching a little too far.
>

how about:

class Sec
   def self.const_missing(constant_name)
     Object.const_set(constant_name, Class.new(Sec))
   end
end