From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-08-02T22:38:21+09:00
Subject: Re: convention for deep classes/modules

David Garamond wrote:
> Is the more common convention:
> 
  > I prefer the second because I dislike having to indent several times.

This is possible now but wasn't always. So it may be that older code
didn't do it because it couldn't.

> Also, is there a possibility that Ruby will "autovivify":
> 
>  module Foo::Bar::Baz
>  class Foo::Bar::Baz2
> 
> so it creates modules Foo, Bar, Baz automatically?

I don't think this is possible, because it needs to know at each
step whether the new thing is a class or a module.


Hal