From: Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2006-09-28T17:55:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Alias for a class?

On 9/28/06, Kevin Jackson <foamdino@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Last night I was playing with some third-party lib and found myself
> having to type StupidlyLongLibName::LongModuleName::LongClassName
> repeatedly and I wanted a mechanism where I could rename these classes
> for my own use to cut down on the finger typing.
>
> I thought I could just do:
>
> class Shortname < OldLongClassName; end
>
> Unfortunately this didn't work (yes there's no error thrown, but the
> later code expected OldLongClassName and wouldn't work with Shortname
>
> So my request is:
> a: is it possible to alias a class (I know you can do it with methods)?
> b: if not can it be added (perhaps with aka)?

You can do this as well:

include StupidlyLongLibName::LongModuleName

however it all stuff from the said module.