Dave Thomas <Dave / PragmaticProgrammer.com> writes:

> Jim Menard <jimm / eris.io.com> writes:
> 
> > I have a class name in a string, and I want to create an instance of that
> > class. Can I do so without using eval? I'm looking for something like
> > Java's "Class.forName(className)" or Smalltalk's "Smalltalk classNamed:
> > className".
> 
> I have to say that this concept strikes me as being really very
> risky.

Why is this risky? I'm trying to build a generic .rthml file that will
display lists of objects with some of their attributes.

Each class I want to display descends from a common superclass representing
a database reference table. I'm building a simple generic database table
editor.

Thanks for the code.

Jim
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