From: Andrew Libby <alibby@...>
Date: 2006-10-23T21:43:04+09:00
Subject: creating objects type only known at runtime


This weekend I was playing around with some ruby and wanted 
to create objects whose types were only known at runtime. 
The method I wound up using was

o = eval "#{class_name}.new"

Is this a preferred method.  I come from (mostly) a perl 
background, but also a Java background.  To me this approach 
seems inelegant.

Thanks for any input.

Andy

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