From: Brian Buckley <briankbuckley@...>
Date: 2006-02-08T23:14:49+09:00
Subject: Re: marshalling constants

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>
> >>> Note that Ruby doesn't really have constants.  Instead it has frozen
> >>> objects which aren't quite the same thing.
> >>
> >> I'm assuming the OP meant constant in the sense of binding, which ruby
> >> does have.
>

Yes.   I did mean constant in the sense of binding to a name, as opposed to
the immutable/frozen sense.

I too attempted revising _dump to handle things normally when objects are
not bound to a constant name but there appears not be a 'super' method to
accomplish that.

def _dump(limit)
    x =3D self.class.name_for_constant(self)
    x.nil? ? super : x      # produces error:  no superclass method `_dump'
(NoMethodError)
end

Brian

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