dynamic call of a function

[Michael Hudson]

anthony harel <anthony.harel at c-s.fr> writes:

> I have got a string that contains the name of the function I
> want to call but I don't want to do something like this :
[schnipp]
> Is it possible to do sommething like that :
> ch = "foo"
> apply(ch, ( ))???

Well, there's 

eval(ch)()

but that's rather horrible.

vars()[ch]()

is, possibly, better.

More context please.  What are you really trying to do?

Cheers,
M.

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