From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-03-24T16:19:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:02125] Re: Scope violated by import via 'require'?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:02101] Re: Scope violated by import via 'require'?"
    on 00/03/23, Clemens Hintze <c.hintze@gmx.net> writes:

|> require()/load() evaluates the contents of the file at the toplevel.
|
|So does that mean it works as you intended?

Yes.

| May I ask another
|question? How can I achieve the goal described above? Is there any
|way?

Well, typical one is like following.

  str = f.read
  Foo.module_eval str

|> module Bar is defined at the toplevel.  And in 1.5.x, `::' notation
|> accesses the constants defined in superclasses too, which makes
|> Foo::Bar valid.
|
|That means, it is not in the module Foo, but will be found above in
|Object, yes? Tricky, tricky! ;-)

Yes.  Tell me if you have alternative ideas.

							matz.