From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-12-05T14:12:14+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27519] Re: Package Naming

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:53 PM
Subject: [ruby-talk:27518] Re: Package Naming


> nobu.nokada@softhome.net writes:
> 
> > > Nice trick :)
> > 
> > But I noticed that contants defined in outer modules aren't
> > accessible.  So bad X-(.
> 
> Sigh...
> 
> > >   module Text::Markup
> > 
> > Do you mean module takes any expression?
> 
> No, just shorthand for
> 
>    module Text
>       module Markup


But classes and modules can nest arbitrarily, yes?

I would think that this could just as easily be

  class Text
    module Markup

and in fact I think it shouldn't matter. If I say 

  module X::Y::Z

I am saying that Z is a module, regardless 
of whether X and Y are classes or modules.

Agree/disagree?

Hal