From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-02-05T23:12:50+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10372] Re: Nested modules and classes?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:10320] Nested modules and classes?"
    on 01/02/04, "Guy N. Hurst" <gnhurst@hurstlinks.com> writes:

|> Also, I don't really remember seeing any discussion
|> here of nested classes... though apparently they
|> exist. Are they ever Really Useful or just a mild
|> curiosity?
|> 
|
|I have not yet seen an answer to this question, and
|I am also interested in understanding this.
|
|I find nested modules and nested classes,
|as well as nested classes inside nested modules.
|
|Nowhere have I seen this documented, yet I see it
|used.  What is the scoop?

It's basically for name space control.

							matz.