From: Ronald Fischer <ronald.fischer@...>
Date: 2007-07-02T18:32:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessing functions in a module without 'include'

> > Sometimes I would find it more convenient to *not* inject
> > the module's namespace into the user's namespace, i.e. to
> > do it without the include statement. I thought it would 
> > be easy to qualify the foreign function with the module
> > name:
> > 
> > # Using the module in another file
> > # (this does not work)
> >   require 'M'
> >   M::f(45)  # Error: undefined method 'f'
> > 
> > Maybe I'm thinking to Perlish here. Can it be done what I want
> > to achieve, and how?
> 
> Not sure if it's what you want, but if you define M as 
> follows it works:
> 
>    module M
>      def self.f(x)
>        ....
>      end
>    end

Thank you, this works perfectly well!

Ronald