From: mortee <mortee.lists@...>
Date: 2007-11-06T23:25:31+09:00
Subject: Re: string to symbol

Fernando Cacciola wrote:
> mortee wrote:
>> If you wish. Note that you can't create constants from within methods.
>>
> Oh... why is that?

I don't know the exact reason. I guess that constants are intended to be
assigned during the initialization phase of an application, while
modules and classes are defined. Methods are primarily used during the
actual normal operation of the program.

If you absolutely need to assign a constant from a method, e.g. because
you define a method for doing some meta-programming magic, and it needs
to create constants too, you can use Module#const_set.

mortee