From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-10-14T02:42:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Namespacing my classes

On 13.10.2008 18:49, Yossef Mendelssohn wrote:
> On Oct 13, 9:12 am, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
> wrote:
>> (module MyLib
>>   (module TestData
>>     (FOO = "abc")
>>   end)
>> end)
>>
>> (module MyLib
>>   (class Tool
>>   end)
>> end)
>>
>> (module MyLib
>>   (class Motor
>>     (def something
>>       (TestData::FOO)
>>     end)
>>   end)
>> end)
> 
> What are all those parentheses about?

Probably a Lisp fan. :-)

$ ruby -cw <<XXX
 > (module MyLib
 >   (module TestData
 >     (FOO = "abc")
 >   end)
 > end)
 > XXX
Syntax OK


To OP, usually this is structured a bit differently:

lib/mylib.rb contains

module MyLib

   module TestData
     FOO = "Ho yeah"
   end

end

require 'mylib/tools'
require 'mylib/motor'


mylib/tools.rb contains

module MyLib
   class Tools
   end
end

mylib/motor.rb contains

module MyLib

   class Motor
     def something()
       TestData::FOO
     end
   end

end


Btw, there is no plural of "data" in English AFAIK.

Kind regards

	robert