From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-11-26T23:38:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20122] Re: [Bug #796] dynamic constant assignment

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:20114] Re: [Bug #796] dynamic constant assignment"
    on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:05:52 +0900, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> writes:

|Indeed. And yet, I'm not sure what the current middle ground approach
|buys us either. You can still change them via remove_const and
|const_set, so what's the difference? As far as I can tell, all that
|accomplishes is extra hoop jumping by us programmers. It's not like
|Ruby's execution is optimized knowing constants won't change.

At least we can keep "illusion" of constants being constants for
casual users.  And I believe it's a good thing.

							matz.