From: Rich Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2002-01-29T10:10:56+09:00
Subject: RE: require problem - uninitialized constant Set (NameError)

To load the set.rb file:

require "set" # note the quotes

Hal's Set class is in the Sets module (which is a Ruby namespace) so to
create a new set either do:

include Sets # includes the Sets namespace
s = Set.new

or don't do the include:

s = Sets::Set.new

or, because Hal wrote a method named "Set" on the Sets module you can do:

s = Sets.Set #which generates a Sets::Set object...see source

-rich

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Corbin [mailto:dcorbin@imperitek.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 6:54 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: require problem - uninitialized constant Set (NameError)
>
>
> I took the ruby code here (http://www.hypermetrics.com/rubyset.html) and
> created a file "set.rb" in "/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby".
>
> I then do a "require set" in my code.
>
> When I attempt to initialize something with "Set.new", I get
> "uninitialized constant Set (NameError)"
>
> "ruby -e 'puts $:'" yields
>
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/i686-linux
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/i686-linux
>
> I've dug around and come up empty.  What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks
> David
>
>
>