From: Tom Werner <pubsub@...>
Date: 2007-09-29T03:48:43+09:00
Subject: Curious include behavior

This caused me a small headache the other day. By including a module, an 
instance method suddenly becomes accessible as a module method. Seems 
unintuitive, I'm curious to understand the reasoning behind it.

module Foo
  module Bar
    def hello
      'hello'
    end
  end
end

Foo::Bar.hello # => -:9: undefined method `hello' for Foo::Bar:Module (NoMethodError)

include Foo::Bar

Foo::Bar.hello # => "hello"


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