From: Jos Backus <jos@...>
Date: 2004-12-03T01:51:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessing class constants from within a module?

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 08:08:11PM +0900, Michael C. Libby wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 16:21 +0900, Jos Backus wrote:
> 
> > Joel's solution was what I was looking for originally (thanks 
> > Joel!) but your solution admittedly works well too. Thanks for
> > that, Michael.
> 
> I like the self.class::CONSTANT expression better myself because it
> keeps the object instances cleaner. I just didn't think it would be
> thateasy and went for the first thing that might work that came to mind.
 
Your solution has the advantage that you can control debugging on a per-object
basis. Depending on the state of the object, while debugging, this can
sometimes be handy.

> Next time I'm going to be thinking, "ok, I know Ruby has an
> easier/faster/cleaner way to express this." :)
 
My words exactly :)

>  -Michael Libby

Cheers,
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