From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2006-05-20T00:58:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby namespaces and require

transfire@gmail.com wrote:
> In Rolls (roll.rubyforge.org) I added the import method which works
> like this:
> 
>   module Bar
>     import 'foo'
>   end
> 
> I can't say which sytax is better, but either works, but there are some
> gotchyas in doing this that one must be careful about. For instance,
> importing any code with extensions to built in classes will not work
> unless the class name is prefixed with '::'.
I can't say I like the syntax (I came up with :into for precisely that 
reason - your way is more natural, but rather verbose), but it's 
different strokes for different folks.  I'll take a look at your 
implementation...  It'd be good to have something standard to point to 
as a solution.

-- 
Alex