From: Simon Krahnke <overlord@...>
Date: 2009-01-29T04:02:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Scope resolution operator

* Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@alice.it> (2009-01-25) schrieb:

> According to "The Ruby Programming Language", ::Something is a shortcut for 
> Object::Something. The idea is that ::Something should look up a constant 
> called Something in the global scope, but since ruby doesn't truly have a 
> global scope, it looks it up in the Object class, which is the nearest thing 
> in ruby to a global scope.

,----
| $ cat /tmp/scope.rb
| Something = "blubb"
| 
| module Bla
|   class Object
|     Something = "crazy"
|   end
| 
|   puts ::Something
|   puts Object::Something
| end
| $ ruby /tmp/scope.rb
| blubb
| crazy
| $
`----

mfg,                    simon .... l