From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-07-05T14:23:17+09:00
Subject: Re: can I alias foo --> LongModuleName.foo?

2006/7/5, John Gabriele <jmg3000@gmail.com>:
> I'd like to save some typing and do:
>
> --------- code ---------
> module LongModuleName
>     def LongModuleName.foo

You can save some typing here by doing

def self.foo

This is also safer with regard to changes in the module's name.

>         puts "..."
>     end
> end
>
> # I don't want to have to keep typing out
> # LongModuleName.foo, so let's make a shortcut.
> alias foo LongModuleName.foo
>
> foo
> --------- /code ---------
>
> But Ruby doesn't like that alias line. Any way to get this nice
> shortcut to work?

def foo() LogModuleName.foo end

robert

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