From: Yasushi Shoji <yashi@...>
Date: 2000-01-11T10:33:49-05:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01099] Re: YADQ (Yet Another Dumb Question)

From: Dave Thomas <Dave@thomases.com>
Subject: [ruby-talk:01095] Re: YADQ (Yet Another Dumb Question)
Date: 11 Jan 2000 09:05:50 -0600

> Personally, I feel the damage done by an altered constant is far more
> severe than the inconvenience of the above two cases.

I agree with that.  However, quick search on ruby-dev, unfortunately
only in Japanese, shows that there was some threads about it. I also
felt that we can change Matz's mind by giving good reason/idea for
it.

> So... how about a compromise? We could have a global method, say

how about making it Constant Class and give a unset/clear method ;P

module Math
  PI.unset # or clear, same as some class' instance method
  PI = 2
end

the reason is same as Dave's.  Explicity.  and it's more like OO lang,
IMHO. ;)
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          yashi