From: Sean O'Halpin <sean.ohalpin@...>
Date: 2009-02-03T09:40:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Is this possible in Ruby

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:12 AM, List.rb <list.rb@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I thought in 1.8.6 it could be done.. Not positive though
>
> a, b = 3, 5
> formula="a*b"
> p eval(formula)
>
>
D'oh. You're absolutely right. Maybe I was thinking of this:

a = 1
b = 2
def some_eval(context)
  eval('a + b', context)
end

some_eval(binding) # => 3

Late night. Off to bed :)

Regards,
Sean