From: paul@... (Paul J. Sanchez)
Date: 2002-11-04T23:40:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Dynamic message dispatch?

>>>>> "matz" == Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> writes:

    matz> Hi, In message "Re: Dynamic message dispatch?"  on 02/11/04,
    matz> Paul J. Sanchez <paul@argelfraster.org> writes:

    matz> | me> Suppose I have methods foo and bar.  How can I read a
    matz> string | me> from ARGV or input and turn it directly into
    matz> the message | me> dispatch?
    matz> |
    matz> |Sorry, I meant to say "How can I read 'foo' or 'bar' as a
    matz> string |from...".  I'm not asking how to do the input, I
    matz> can't figure out how |to convert a string into a method
    matz> invocation on the fly.

    matz> send?

    matz>   self.send("print", "foo\n")

That worked beautifully.  Thanks!

--paul