From: noreply@...
Date: 2006-11-09T23:43:53+09:00
Subject: [ ruby-Bugs-6583 ] self-referential constants

Bugs item #6583, was opened at 2006-11-09 06:43
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Category: Core
Group: 1.8.x
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Erik Hollensbe (erikh)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: self-referential constants

Initial Comment:
Honestly, I'm not sure where you'd like to classify this. It could easily fall under "won't fix", but I figured it's worth alerting to anyways.

given this code:

class A
  class B < A
  end
end

walking the constants looks similar to this:

irb(main):005:0> A.constants
=> ["B"]
irb(main):006:0> A::B.constants
=> ["B"]
irb(main):007:0> A::B.const_get(:B)
=> A::B

Blew the stack limit trying to navigate a namespace similar to this. I think this is a bug because I can't fathom having a constant that's self-referential, but it's obviously an indication of a poor design decision on the part of the person who wrote said namespace structure (which in this case, would be me).

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