From: Piergiuliano Bossi <p_bossi_AGAINST_SPAM@...>
Date: 2004-02-10T22:20:00+09:00
Subject: Re: evaluate and print an expression

Robert Klemme wrote:

>>I know that in lisp this can be easily done due to its nature (that is,
>>code is data and data is code), but in ruby?
> 
> 
> You can't without manually parsing the source file.  The closest you might
> get without extra parsing might be this, but still "code" is a String:
> 
> code=<<CODE
> 1 + 2 == 3
> CODE
> puts "#{code} --> #{eval code}"
> 

Thanks Robert, I understand what you mean: it looks like code, but it's 
a String.

Smart, but I was looking for real code.

Thanks anyway.
Ciao, Giuliano

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