From: Carlo Teubner <C.Teubner@...>
Date: 2002-04-29T00:42:09+09:00
Subject: Re: string to class?

> eval has always struck me as evil (are my perl roots showing?).  Try:
> 
> str = 'Array'
> m = Kernel.method(str)
> a = m.call(nil)
> a.push('foobar')
> p a

But this only works with some built-in classes, like Array, Hash, String etc.

-Carlo