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From: mjohnson@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu (Mark S. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Converting strings to blocks
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Date: 14 Jun 91 06:34:32 GMT
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Is there an easy/good/correct way to convert a string into a block?
I'd like to do something like the following:

   |aString aBlock|
     aString := '[:x | ', 'x sqrt', ']'.
     aBlock := aString asBlock.
     aBlock value: 3.0
     ...

You could imagine that I read the 'x sqrt' part from the terminal at
runtime...

The code for the "asBlock" method is what I'm looking for.

Thanks in advance, Mark

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Mark S. Johnson        mjohnson@stn9.me.calpoly.edu      (129.65.19.9)