From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2001-12-05T12:50:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27514] Re: Package Naming

At Wed, 5 Dec 2001 06:51:16 +0900,
Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> wrote:
> Also, until Matz gets
> 
>   module Text::Markup
> 
> implemented, you end up with a fair amount of additional indentation
> in deeply nested files
> 
>   module Text
>     module Markup
>      module OutputFormatter
> 
>        class ToHtml ....

If you just meant its bad-looking, you could avoid it by
separating definitions with module_eval.

  module Text end

  Text.module_eval do
    module Markup end
  end

  Text::Markup.module_eval do
    module OutputFormatter end
  end

  Text::Markup::OutputFormatter.module_eval do
    class ToHtml
      # definitions here...
    end
  end

  Text::Markup::OutputFormatter::ToHtml.module_eval do
    # or here...
  end


Or shorter (but more cryptographically ;-P),

  module Text self end.module_eval {
    module Markup self end
  }.module_eval {
    module OutputFormatter self end
  }.module_eval {
    class ToHtml
      # ...
    end
  }


# I don't say they're pretty.


Nobu Nakada