From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-01-18T07:09:16+09:00
Subject: Re: const initialization

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, David Weldon wrote:

> I think ruby does something strange when it decides if certain constants
> have been initialized or not. Take this simple case:
>
> #test.rb
> require 'const'
> require '/home/dave/foo/const'

require File.expand_path('const')
require File.expand_path('/home/dave/foo/const')

>
> #const.rb
> DAVE=1
>
> When I run this I get:
>
> /home/dave/foo/const.rb:1: warning: already initialized constant DAVE
>
> ...and yes, const.rb is the same one used for both test1.rb and
> test2.rb. It seems like ruby hashes the paths to the source files and
> complains when they are different - even if both paths reference the
> same file in the filesystem. Is there a good way to avoid this? Thanks!
>
> -- 
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>

-a
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