From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-07-27T20:06:28+09:00
Subject: Re: local constant

Hi --

On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Phlip wrote:

> Marc Heiler wrote:
>
>>> Read my verbiage again.
>> 
>> Not trying to nitpick but I agree with Robert Dober about the formulation:
>> 
>>>> If you called aidy() twice, the constant would re-assign, and it therefor 
>>>> would not be constant.
>
> The quote depends on magically suspending the Ruby error message. Hence it 
> does not say out-of-the-box Ruby cannot reassign.
>
> (We get reassignments, with their warnings, all the time in Rails, partly due 
> to its Magic Loader facility...)

The magic loading shouldn't lead to those errors. It only does the
magic loading for unresolved constant references, and once it loads
the necessary file, any further references to the constant won't be
unresolved.

Maybe you've got some rogue "load" commands somewhere.


David

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