From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-02-15T05:44:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Converting class_for to a C extension

On Feb 14, 2007, at 12:05, Daniel Berger wrote:
> On Feb 14, 12:50 pm, "Lyle Johnson" <lyle.john...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2/14/07, Eric Hodel <drbr...@segment7.net> wrote:
>>
>>> One of these days I'm going to write a patch to expose this to  
>>> Ruby :P
>>
>> Expose what to Ruby?
>
> I think he just means that there's no direct equivalent in plain Ruby
> (right?).

Yup.  I've reimplemented rb_path2class() numerous times in ruby, and  
there's a perfectly good C method lying around that needs only a one- 
line patch to be accessible.

> I think just patching const_get to handle "::" would suffice.

Possibly.