From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-05-21T13:38:58+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15455] Re: RCR: #const_name_is

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:15454] Re: RCR: #const_name_is"
    on 01/05/21, Mathieu Bouchard <matju@sympatico.ca> writes:

|First of all, pop up irb and try this:
|
|x = Class.new   #==>   #<Class 0lx4020d7f4>
|Foo=x           #==>   Foo
|x               #==>   Foo
|
|Obviously, Ruby does it "behind the scenes". Therefore it is useful.
|Therefore it is worth making available to everybody. This should be a
|sufficient rationale by itself.

Well, in this case, Module#to_s (or more precisely find_class_path()
function in variable.c) do this job.  It searches class hierarchy from
Object upon invocation.

I don't really like the idea of active assignment like this.
 
							matz.