From: Chris Roos <chrisjroos@...>
Date: 2006-09-11T21:59:21+09:00
Subject: Constant lookup starting in superclass, not derived class

I'm no doubt missing something obvious but I found this a little
confusing.  I would have expected the constant lookup to start in Bar
and therefore succeed.  Instead, it appears to start in Base where Foo
is not defined.

class Base
  def foo
    p Foo
  end
end

class Bar < Base
  class Foo
  end
end

Bar.new.foo
# ~> -:3:in `foo': uninitialized constant Base::Foo (NameError)
# ~> 	from -:12

Can anyone explain what is happening please?

Cheers,

Chris