[ruby-core:54342] [CommonRuby - Feature #8275] Add Module#public_const_get

Issue #8275 has been updated by headius (Charles Nutter).


What about an optional boolean for the existing const_get/const_set that indicates whether private constants should be included?

I guess having separate methods does align with public_instance_method and friends, though.
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Feature #8275: Add Module#public_const_get
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8275#change-38618

Author: rkh (Konstantin Haase)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
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Right now, `const_get` will always return a constant, no matter the visibility, which is probably what we want most of the time. But if you for instance have code that does some automatic name to constant resolution, you might now want to leak private constants.

module Foo
  Bar = 42
  private_constant :Bar
end

# currently:
Foo::Bar # raises NameError
Foo.const_get("Bar") # => 42
Object.const_get("Foo::Bar") # => 42

# proposed:
Foo.public_const_get("Bar") # raises NameError
Object.public_const_get("Foo::Bar") # raises NameError


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