From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-12-09T03:40:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27959] Re: Module and object extend. Can someone please explain

Hi --

On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Jim Freeze wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, David Alan Black wrote:
>
> > I don't think #extend will give you access to constants defined
> > in a module:
> >
> Interesting. It will add the constants and they can
> be accessed view the methods, but you cannot access the
> constants directly. Anyone know why?
>
> module M
>  C = 2
>  def c
>   puts C
>  end
> end
> class A; end
> a=A.new
> a.extend M
> a.c # => 2

Isn't it just that method c is defined in a context where C is in
scope?


David

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