From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2007-08-14T17:27:36+09:00
Subject: Re: what is "dynamic constant assignment"

Alle marted� 14 agosto 2007, Nikos Kanellopoulos ha scritto:
> 2007/8/14, sean liu <seanliugm@gmail.com>:
> > hi, all
> >
> > today i defined a class like this:
> > class C
> >   AB = 10
> >   def self.set(value)
> >      AB = value
> >   end
> > end
> > then i got this error: SyntaxError: compile error (irb):10: dynamic
> > constant assignment.
> > Constants can be changed after initialization, but what does this error
> > mean?
> > Any explanations will be appreciated.
>
> Variable AB is a contant, because it starts with a capital letter.
> You can only assign a contant value (or expression) to it, once.

That's not true. You can assign a value to a constant more than once, even if 
ruby will issue a warning:

irb: 001> A = 1
1
irb: 002> A = 2
(irb):2: warning: already initialized constant A
2

I guess that the 'dynamic constant assignment' means that you can assing to a 
constant in a method.

Stefano