From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-04-11T10:19:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Class Definition inside a method definition?

dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Bihal wrote:
> 
>> Thanks David. I'm not sure you caught sight of the line of code I was
>> worried about. I should have made it more clear. This one in particular
>>
>> sclass = class << self; self; end
>>
>> does use a class keyword and syntactic construct, it's just on a single
>> line.
> 
> Oh.  So it does.  Well, I guess those are allowed, then :-)  I'm not
> sure what the rationale is.  I wonder if it has something to do with
> the realm of constants, compile-time resolution, etc., or just the
> theory that class << obj isn't of much use if you can't use it
> dynamically in methods.

Maybe it is allowed for consistency with the fact that the 'def
obj.meth' form is allowed in that context.

def foo
  x = []
  def x.bar
    "bar"
  end
  puts x.bar
end

foo

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