From: seebs@... (Peter Seebach)
Date: 2007-05-26T20:29:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Forward references?

In message <5bqjfiF2u1b1vU1@mid.individual.net>, Robert Klemme writes:
>First of all, your example is about nested classes and not subclasses.

I knew that.  Maybe I shouldn't be on decaf.

>class Foo
>   def initialize
>     @bar = Bar.new self
>   end
>
>   class Bar
>     def initialize(foo)
>       @foo = foo
>     end
>   end
>end

Ooh.

>Another question is whether you really want nested classes or maybe 
>rather classes in the same namespace.  Basically I create nested classes 
>if the nested class only makes sense in the context of the outer class. 
>  The situation is however different than in Java where all this is much 
>more strict (and thus clear).

Classes in the same namespace might be a better choice.  I
think I may just do that.  Thinking about it, my assumption that
the nested classes only made sense in the context of an
outer class may be wrong.  Since I can't see a reason to enforce that
assumption, I'll just remove it, and move them all into a namespace
together.

-s