From: Mark Wilden <mark@...>
Date: 2008-05-23T01:51:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Prevent ruby constant variables from changing?

On May 22, 2008, at 4:38 AM, Florian Gilcher wrote:
>
> If you noticed, class names are constants. As you can change classes  
> at runtime, constants must be changable.
> Actually overwriting Constants emits a warning. A you should program  
> warnings-free, that should be no problem :).

Sure, you can change classes at runtime, but should you be able to  
change which object is referenced by a class name? I haven't heard of  
that before. Do you have a real-world example of someone doing that?  
Just curious.

///ark