From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-04-11T12:17:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Identfying classes in a file dynamically

dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
> 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.

Oh, I see--I thought you meant it was a workaround, but it's actually a
limitation of the module wrapping trick. Good point.

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