From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-10-03T07:39:44+09:00
Subject: Re: hook, or override const_set, and const_get

On Oct 2, 2007, at 14:43 , John Pywtorak wrote:
> I have seen some examples of hooking into const_missing; Howerver,  
> I can't seem to find anything on const_set, and const_get, any ideas?
>
> I tried opening class Module, ex.
>
> class Module
>   def const_set(cname, cval)
>     ....
>   end
> end
>
> Does not work.  I realize this is very dangerous.  Is there any  
> other way to intercept when, ex
>
> FOO="bar"
>
> happens?

a) Edit variable.c

b) Run your code through a ruby2ruby subclass that wraps up your  
const assignments with extra code.

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