From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-11-16T19:37:18+09:00
Subject: Re: The subtleties of const_missing

Nicholas Seckar wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've run into an issue regarding the use of const_missing. This issue
> revolves around the fact that these two cases are supposed to behave
> differently from each other:
>
> irb(main):001:0> B = 10
> irb(main):002:0> module A; B; end
> => 10
> irb(main):003:0> A::B
> NameError: uninitialized constant A::B
>          from (irb):3
>
> However it seems impossible to detect which case we are in within the
> const_missing method. A more detailed explanation follows:

I'm not sure what you're up to.  You define B in a completely different
scope than you use for lookup.  Maybe you can give a more real life
example of what you are actually trying to do.

Kind regards

    robert