I had a collegue looking for a way to alias a class in Ruby. Which I thought was a pretty interseting problem.
My first attempt was using eval, which really felt to clever:
class Daddy; def speak() puts "No!" end; end
%w{Leah Lars}.each {|k| eval "class #{k} < Daddy; end"}
Leah.new.speak
Lars.new.speak
Then it dawned on me, everything is an object, even classes. So could it be this simple?
class Daddy; def speak() puts "No!" end; end
Leah = Daddy
Lars = Daddy
Leah.new.speak
Lars.new.speak
It actually worked. Yes it is one line longer. But it is extremly readable and does not use evil^H^H^Heval