From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-05-30T06:22:31+09:00
Subject: Re: [ruby-cvs] ruby, ruby/lib: * eval.c (ev_const_defined, ev_const_get), variable.c

Hi,

At Thu, 29 May 2003 22:15:14 +0900,
Dave Thomas wrote:
> I have to say that this behavior is somewhat surprising. From its
> name, you'd expect 'autoload' to be an automatic form of 'load', and
> yet:
> 
> 
>    x.rb:
>       XXX = 1
> 
>    [~/tmp] ruby -ve 'module X; load "x.rb";end; p X::XXX'
>    ruby 1.8.0 (2003-05-29) [powerpc-darwin6.6]
>    1
> 
>    [~/tmp] ruby -ve 'module X; autoload :XXX, "x.rb";end; p X::XXX'
>     ruby 1.8.0 (2003-05-29) [powerpc-darwin6.6]
>    -e:1: uninitialized constant X::XXX (NameError)

Thank you.  Fixed now.

-- 
Nobu Nakada