[ruby-core:23299] Re: Difference in constant lookup between 1.8 and 1.9

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:54:09 +0900
Michael Fellinger <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hello, 
> 
> I was wondering about a change in constant lookup behaviour between
> the 1.8 and 1.9 lines.
> 
> Given following source, which runs fine on 1.8, but will raise:
> undefined method `dirname' for Rack::File:Class (NoMethodError)
> 
> ###################################################################
> 
> module Rack
>   class File
>   end
> 
>   class Builder
>     def initialize(&block)
>       instance_eval(&block)
>     end
>   end
> end
> 
> Rack::Builder.new{ File.dirname("foo") }
> 
> ###################################################################
> 
> This is boiled down from a real-world example where i got exactly
> this error when running in 1.9. I know i can fix that by referencing
> `::File::dirname`, but it would be nice to know definitely whether we
> can rely on this new behaviour.
> 

Sorry, I forgot a title for this mail... my bad

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^ manveru