From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-06-23T21:13:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Class#name=

Hi --

On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Pete wrote:

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

$ ruby -e 'A=1; A=2; puts A'
-e:1: warning: already initialized constant A
2

:-)

The original example didn't involve constant re-assignment, though,
just assignment of two constants to the same object.


David

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