From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-05-23T01:08:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Prevent ruby constant variables from changing?


On May 22, 2008, at 9:45 AM, Robert Dober wrote:

> Hmm Ara, are you sure?
> Is it not the interpreter that "quirks", as I have put it, the name of
> a class when it is assigned to a constant, either via
> class Klass
> but also via
> Klass = Class::new
> while it quirks it to "" if we do
> c = Class::new

heh - point taken.  i think we are saying the same thing: the concept  
of a class 'name' is quite fragile.


>
>
> I think it is a mess, after reading your metakoan Rubyquiz I should
> never ever have used constants to point to classes anymore, I am a
> weakling ;)


lol - well, like many things in ruby it's quite 'human' feeling quite  
natural yet containing some internal contradiction.  i guess the main  
point is that we all seem to find it fairly natural to use - that  
counts for something.

cheers.

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