From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-05-04T08:46:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Sharp knives and glue

On May 3, 2006, at 5:56 PM, Jacob Fugal wrote:

> On 5/3/06, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
>> I'm pretty confident the order Ruby loads code is a well defined  
>> process.
>> Please show us some sample code.
>
> I think the core of what David is talking about comes down to this  
> point:
>
>  $ cat foo.rb
>  class Foo
>    def quux
>      "This is one definition"
>    end
>  end
>
>  $ cat bar.rb
>  class Foo
>    def quux
>      "This is another definition"
>    end
>  end
>
>  $ cat baz1.rb
>  require 'foo'
>  require 'bar'
>  puts Foo.new.quux

Luckily, Ruby does warn me there is a problem, as long as I use  
warnings:

$ ruby -w baz1.rb
./bar.rb:2: warning: method redefined; discarding old quux
This is another definition

James Edward Gray II