From: Kenneth McDonald <kenneth.m.mcdonald@...>
Date: 2007-08-04T07:03:02+09:00
Subject: Followup question on defining methods dynamically

Simple example that doesn't work:

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module Test
p "Testing"
eval("def foo\np 'OK'\nend")
foo
end
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'foo' does not get defined in a place where it can be found by the call 
on foo, and I get an error. However, when I execute the two lines

eval("def foo\np 'OK'\nend")
foo

in IRB, everything works. I'm guessing that this is a namespace problem, 
but can't see why it would be. Then again, I'm accustomed to the Python 
namespace model, and still don't understand all of the ways in which the 
Ruby model is different.

Thanks for any suggestions,
Ken