From: Ned Konz <ned@...>
Date: 2001-09-05T04:23:32+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20886] Re: newbie question

On Tuesday 04 September 2001 12:15 pm, Pat Eyler wrote:
> On 05 Sep 2001 03:48:48 +0900, Ned Konz wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 September 2001 11:18 am, Pat Eyler wrote:
> > > I never did translate:
> > >
> > > public class Movie {
> > >     public static final int CHILDREN = 2;
> > >     public static final int REGULAR = 0;
> > >     public static final int NEW_RELEASE = 1;
> > > }
> > >
> > > into ruby, instead I just used the magic numbers 0, 1, and 2 as needed
> > > in methods of other classes and ignored it figuring I would have a
> > > blinding flash of the obvious and go back and fix things.  As can be
> > > expected, the blinding flash never came.
> > >
> > > Would someone mind enlightening me?
> >
> > class Movie
> >    CHILDREN = 2
> >    REGULAR = 0
> >    NEW_RELEASE = 1
> >    # ...
> > end
>
> I'd tried this, but it fails when I try to use the values outside a
> Movie (see the class Price hierarchy) in the code below.  This probably
> means that I'm doing something else wrong...

Well, they're not globals, so you'd have to refer to them by fully-qualified 
name:

Movie::CHILDREN

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