instance_eval("class") error/bug???

[walter]

if I try someObject.instance_eval("class") I get :

in `instance_eval': (eval):1:in `instance_eval': compile error
(SyntaxError)
(eval):1: syntax error
class

I am using PragProgs install for 1.8 for Windows. Is this expected
or a bug?

As a work around I am using send() instead, but I believe I had
tested them in the past and found instance_eval to be faster than
send.


Walt

P.S. Note I am not really doing the above, I am taking a string using
it dynamically, it just happened to crash with "class"
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[Mauricio Fernández]

if I try someObject.instance_eval("class") I get :

in `instance_eval': (eval):1:in `instance_eval': compile error
(SyntaxError)
(eval):1: syntax error
class

I am using PragProgs install for 1.8 for Windows. Is this expected
or a bug?

I guess it's expected, you'd have to do self.class to make it work:
SyntaxError: compile error
(irb):1: syntax error
from (irb):1(irb):3: warning: Object#type is deprecated; use Object#class
=> Object=> String

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