From: "Pål Bergström" <pal@...>
Date: 2006-07-15T04:19:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Don't understand :: in ActionController::Base

unknown wrote:

> The confusion arises when you assume that the names imply class/subclass
> relationships. The hierarchy of *names* is 100% independent of the
> hierarchy of classes.
> class D < A::A1; end
> class E < B::B1; end
> class B::B1::B2 < A::A1; end
> class A::A1::A2 < B::B1::B2; end
> 
>  From those definitions you get the following inheritance structure:
> 
> Object  + -- A --------- C
>          |
>          + -- A::A1 --+-- D
>          |            |
>          |            +-- B::B1::B2 -- A::A1::A2
>          |
>          + -- B
>          |
>          + -- B::B1 ----- E


Thanks. That helped.

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