From: nobu@...
Date: 2006-07-30T17:16:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Inconsistency in scoping during module_eval?

Hi,

At Sun, 30 Jul 2006 15:31:27 +0900,
Charles O Nutter wrote in [ruby-core:08441]:
> Why is it that bar is correctly defined under the class Foo, but BAZ gets
> defined at the top level? Is there a reason for this inconsistency?

Your code is equivalent to:

> class Foo
> end
> 
>   BAZ = 1
> 
> p defined?(bar) => nil
> p defined?(BAZ) => "constant"
> p defined?(Foo::BAZ) => "constant"

And if you don't use defined?, you'll see a warning like as:

  warning: toplevel constant BAZ referenced by Foo::BAZ

-- 
Nobu Nakada