From: Anders Borch <spam@...>
Date: 2003-07-01T19:28:21+09:00
Subject: Re: dynamic object creation

Brian Candler wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 05:23:35AM +0900, Anders Borch wrote:
> 
>>>A class name is just a constant, so something like
>>>
>>>   a = Module.const_get("Array").new
>>
>>uhm... why does this work?
>>
>>I just tested it and to my surprise it worked?!
>>
>>http://rubycentral.com/book/ref_c_module.html#Module.const_get
>>
>>says that I need to supply a symbol, why does it accept a string?
> 
> 
> Even if it didn't, you can easily convert strings to symbols and vice versa.
> 
>     "Array".intern
>      => :Array

hadn't seen that one, thanks =)

>     :Array.to_s
>      => "Array"
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Brian.
> 


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