From: Elias Athanasopoulos <elathan@...>
Date: 2004-05-08T03:19:23+09:00
Subject: Re: class_missing ?

On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 03:09:15AM +0900, Mark Hubbart wrote:
> 
> On May 7, 2004, at 9:58 AM, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote:
> 
> >Hello!
> >
> >Is there something similar to method_missing for classes?
> >
> >I.e. overload a method of Object or handle an exception
> >when a 'Foo.new' is called and class Foo does not exist.
> 
> Something like this?
> 
>   def Object.const_missing(sym)
>     Object.const_set( sym, Class.new() )
>   end
>     ==>nil
>   Foo.new
>     ==>#<Foo:0x3c408>
>   Bar.new
>     ==>#<Bar:0x398d4>
>   Baz.new
>     ==>#<Baz:0x21370>

Exactly! Thanx (to Dmitry also). :-)

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Regards,
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