From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2007-02-12T10:10:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Backport from ruby 1.9, including constants

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:02:37 +0900, Victor \"Zverok\" Shepelev wrote:

> Hello all.
> 
> During last several monthes I've worked on some library, using the latest
> ruby1.9. Now I want to release the library to community, but first I need to
> "backport" it.
> One small problem I've stumbled upon:
> 
> module Constants
>   TEST = 5
> end
> 
> class A
> end
> 
> a = A.new
> 
> a.instance_eval{
>   extend Constants
>   p TEST #<== here
> }
> 
> At the "here" string, ruby1.9 had printed "5", but ruby 1.8.5 raises
> NameError (uninitialized constant TEST).
> 
> I know, the question is silly, but I can't find how to do this. (by some
> reasons, the code should affect only one object, not entire class)

class << a
  extend Constants
  p TEST
end


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Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
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