From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-12-21T18:42:01+09:00
Subject: Re: String#to_class?

From: "Tim Bates" <tim@bates.id.au>


> On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 07:36 pm, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> >   eval($1)
>
> * Tim smacks head with palm.
>
> D'oh!
>
> (Respond same to Gavin's email.)
>
> Although, in the end I used Object.const_get because it makes my intentions a
> bit clearer, although the error messages for a nonexistant class are almost
> identical. I guess I didn't think of it because in that sort of situation I
> consider eval a bit of a hack.

I agree.  I've never needed to do this before, and wouldn't have thought of
Object.const_get.  In fact, I only half get that...

> Tim Bates
> --
> tim@bates.id.au

Gavin