From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2002-11-20T08:11:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbol usage help

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 dblack@candle.superlink.net wrote:

D> Actually this:
D>
D>   Class === obj.type
D>
D> is always true, because it's testing to see whether obj.type is a
D> Class.
D>
D> Maybe you could do:
D>
D>   if Class === const_get(s)
D>     obj = s.new
D>   end

it seems to be a valid test for me?

  irb(main):002:0>  Class === (eval s).type
  NameError: (eval):1:in `irb_binding': undefined local variable or method
  `foobar' for #<Object:0x40190ce0> from (irb):2
	  from (irb):2

  irb(main):003:0> s = 'String'
  "String"
  irb(main):004:0>  Class === (eval s).type
  true

note the original had a typo (s.intern).  don't know what i was thinking, but
that doesn't really affect what you were saying does it?


-a

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