From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-04-05T00:01:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Lookup of Capitalized Methods


On Apr 4, 2008, at 8:07 AM, Trans wrote:
>
> So, assuming we are still ideologically opposed binding-of-caller what
> do others think of the idea of capitalized methods having the same
> scope lookup as constants?

it leads to a weird sort of namespace pollution:


class C

   def M

     'quasi-globa-instance-methodl'

   end

   class D

     def foobar

       M()  # this works even though M is not an instance method of D

     end

   end

end


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