From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-06-22T08:03:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Class Names

Aaron Patterson wrote:
> Hi, I was wondering how I can reffer to a class outside of my class, but
> it has the same name.  Hopefully the following code will make it more
> clear:
> 
> module Test
>   class File
>     def print_file
>       # I don't want to call Test::File.open here:
>       File.open('test.rb', "r") { |f| puts f.read }

        ::File.open('test.rb', "r") { |f| puts f.read }

The :: means look up the constant in the top level scope.

>     end
>   end
> end
> 
> Test::File.new().print_file

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