From: Ferenc Engard <ferenc@...>
Date: 2004-08-30T09:29:04+09:00
Subject: Re: silly question

> > module X
> > def X.foo; puts "foo"; end
> > end
> >
> > module Y
> > include X            # what to write here?
> > def bar; foo(); end  # want to call X.foo
> > end
> >
> > Is it even make sense?
> 
> You can do it in Ruby, and it makes a lot of sense. Refer to the
> pickaxe for details
> http://phrogz.net/ProgrammingRuby/tut_modules.html#mixins

That description deals with normal mixin functionality, using instance
methods. Here I want to use a module method in another module (or class)
without qualifying it.

Ferenc