From: Orion Hunter <orion2480@...>
Date: 2003-06-24T02:21:45+09:00
Subject: Runtime interpretation

I want to know how to interpret something from a string, so as to be used 
directly by the interpreter at runtime.  A simplified example:

$> ruby myprogram.rb
Enter object information:> Array.new(4)
object created:> [nil, nil, nil, nil]
Enter object information:> Hash.new()
object created:> {}
Enter object information:> MyObject.new(2,4,6)
etc., etc.

I know that, as an interpreted language, Ruby can load new classes, function 
definitions, etc. at runtime.  But is the above possible? If the object 
creation was limited to Arrays and Hash's, it would be simple enough just to 
parse the string and go from there... but that severly limits the 
funcationality with such specificity.  I was hoping to be able to directly 
_interpret_ the information in the input string.  Is this possible?

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