From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-08-04T03:05:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating Classes at runtime

On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, David Stokar wrote:

> David Stokar wrote:
> it works like this (just copy and paste)

<snip positive impl>


i thought i'd chime in here and point out that the idea of this is flawed:

if you know the name of the class you want to generate, let's say 'MyClass',
and you also want to refer to it via the bareword constant MyClass then you
can simply do

   class MyClass; end

and later

   class MyClass
     def an_added_method
       # ...
     end
   end

the point being that, unless you are going to __also__ going retrieve you
classes via the string name, as in

   c = const_get 'MyClass'

   obj = c::new


not

   c = create_class 'MyClass'

   obj = MyClass.new

then you do not need to dynamically create classes by name since the name is
know apriori

perhaps i misunderstodd the OP, but the question did suggest a flawed design.

regards.

-a
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