From: Pete <pertl@...>
Date: 2006-06-23T21:02:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Class#name=

I guess it's because constants are _constant_ so they can not be re-assigned

Robert Dober schrieb:
> On 6/23/06, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In message "Re: Class#name="
>>     on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:42:09 +0900, Joshua Haberman <
>> joshua@reverberate.org> writes:
>>
>> |Is there any reason that Class#name= shouldn't exist?
>>
>> Modules and classes are named by the constant referencing it.  If you
>> want to name an anonymous module, see the following code:
>>
>>   mod = Module.new
>>   NewModule = mod
>>   p NewModule.name # => "NewModule"
>>
>>                                                         matz.
>
> I have been inspired by this, and I found this behavior
>  irb
> irb(main):001:0> mod = Module.new
> => #<Module:0xb7d8d024>
> irb(main):002:0> mod.name
> => ""
> ok understandable
> irb(main):003:0> A = mod
> => A
> irb(main):004:0> mod.name
> => "A"
> most surprising
> irb(main):005:0> B = mod
> => A
> irb(main):006:0> mod.name
> => "A"
> even more surprising
> irb(main):007:0> B.name
> => "A"
> ??????
> irb(main):008:0>
>
> Well this kind of shocks me, is there an idea behind this which I am
> missing?
> If so could you please point me there.
> Sorry for being so direct, but that seems to be in violation with "Ruby
> should do what you expect it to do".
>
> Cheers
> Robert
>
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