From: George Ogata <g_ogata@...>
Date: 2006-03-10T10:18:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Namespaces / Modules

eastcoastcoder@gmail.com writes:

>> The latter may reference A::B::C or A::C, whereas the former cannot.
>
> Intersting... why is that?

Doing "module X::Y::Z" (or "class X::Y::Z") will bring only X::Y::Z::*
constants into scope.  Constants from outer modules (X::Y::*, X::*)
aren't brought in.  Thus, to get all the nested namespaces in scope,
you need to open each one explicitly.

It's been debated:

http://rubyurl.com/1NH
http://rubyurl.com/0KZ