[ruby-core:54356] [CommonRuby - Feature #8275] Add Module#public_const_get

Issue #8275 has been updated by rkh (Konstantin Haase).


I was considering a boolean. However, const_get already takes a boolean argument indicating whether or not to include inherited constants, and two boolean arguments would not make a readable API, I guess.

Maybe this would be a good use case for keyword arguments if the API were to be extended?

For instance with the following signature:

    const_get(name, inherited = true, private: true)

Or even overload so that the old signature still works

    const_get(name, inherited = true)

but it might also support

    const_get(name, inherited: true, private: true)

What do you think?
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Feature #8275: Add Module#public_const_get
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8275#change-38631

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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