From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2002-11-20T05:50:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbol usage help

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

J> Instead of
J>
J>    s.intern.value
J>
J> Try
J>
J>    eval s
J>
J> or
J>
J>    eval s.intern.to_s

hmmm.  this does work, but the string eval'd is actually dynamically generated
from a cgi program - so i'd like to do it safely.  i could do

  if Class === (klass = (eval s.intern)).type
    object = klass.new
  end

and at least know it was a class - but i've already evaluated the string at
this point...

-a

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