From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-06-16T00:50:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Why the lack of mixing-in support for Class methods?

On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: Why the lack of mixing-in support for Class methods?"
>    on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:38:24 +0900, Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@gmail.com> writes:
>
> |That, and it's nice to have an implementation that fits with the
> |interface we have pretty much agreed on (well, matz has).
>
> Yes, and there's something that only working code can prove.

do you think this is important?

     harp:~ > cat b.rb
     require 'class_extension'
     module M
       class_extension do
         p const_get(:File)                  # File
         p File                              # File
         class File
           def self.inspect() 'my_file' end
         end
         p const_get(:File)                  # File
         p File                              # my_file
       end
     end

     p M::File                               # my_file
     p M::const_get(:File)                   # my_file
     p M::class_extension::const_get(:File)  # File
     p M::class_extension::File              # exception!


     harp:~ > ruby b.rb
     File
     File
     File
     my_file
     my_file
     my_file
     File
     b.rb:18: uninitialized constant #<Module:0xb75cdf08>::File (NameError)


i am in the minority, but it bothers me.  don't get me wrong, i like the
interface - but the semantics seem odd.

regards.

-a
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