From: Chris Pine <nemo@...>
Date: 2003-02-13T09:17:59+09:00
Subject: Re: how to call a functino through a variable name

Try:

  eval a

Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Bretoi" <lists@debonair.net>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 4:04 PM
Subject: how to call a functino through a variable name


How would I do something like this:

def blah
puts "string"
end

a = "blah"

run function defined by a.


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