From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-04-11T11:47:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Identfying classes in a file dynamically

Hi --

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
> ...
>> Also I think that if the read-in file uses the ::Const construct,
>> those classes won't get counted.
>
> You mean like this:
>
> $ cat t.rb
> class ::Foo
> end
> $ ruby -e 'load "t.rb"; p Foo'
> Foo
> $ ruby -e 'load "t.rb"; ObjectSpace.each_object(Class) {|c| p c if
> c.name == "Foo"}'
> Foo
>
> So it doesn't look like that works, unless I'm misunderstanding...

Yes, that's what I meant; if you have ::Foo in your file, then you
won't get a Foo class in the module you wrap in, so you won't get the
right count of modules in the file.


David

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