From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2001-12-05T12:50:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27515] Re: Package Naming

At Wed, 5 Dec 2001 08:18:25 +0900,
Bryan Murphy <bryan@terralab.com> wrote:
> Now, I don't see why Modules and Namespaces have to behave exactly the 
> way they do.  Why not something like this?
> 
> module MyXMLConfigModule
>   module_alias Text::XML::MyXMLConfigModule
>   module_alias XML::Text::MyXMLConfigModule
>   module_alias Configuration::Tools::MyXMLConfigModule
> end
> 
> require 'Text/XML/MyXMLConfigModule'
> works the same as
> require 'XML/Text/MyXMLConfigModule'

How can the interpreter know MyXMLConfigModule has aliases
before require?  Searching all of probable modules?

Rather, what about this?

$ cat XML/Text/MyXMLConfigModule.rb
module XML
  module Text
    module MyXMLConfigModule
      # ...
    end
  end
end

$ cat Text/XML/MyXMLConfigModule.rb
module Text
  module XML
    require 'XML/Text/MyXMLConfigModule'
    MyXMLConfigModule = ::XML::Text::MyXMLConfigModule
  end
end

$ ruby -rText/XML/MyXMLConfigModule -e 'p Text::XML::MyXMLConfigModule'
XML::Text::MyXMLConfigModule


Nobu Nakada