From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2002-02-01T23:39:16+09:00
Subject: Re: strange behavior

On 1 Feb 2002, at 23:02, mengx@nielsenmedia.com wrote:

> As Dave mentioned, "include" use a proxy for the included module. it
> seems to me that the subclassing uses the similar implementation
> 
> class A
>  AA = 1
> end
> 
> class B < A
>  BB = 1
>  class C
>   puts BB  => 1
>   puts AA  => NameError
>  end
> 
> end
> 
> B.constants  => AA ..
> 
> As I mentioned for the module issue, my point is that apparently, when
> B looks up for constants, it searches the proxy since it is regarded
> as part of B. When C asks B for its constants, B does not search its
> proxy. No matter how they are implemented in Ruby C interpreter, at
> runtime, both BB and AA should have the same accessibility, which is
> what an inheritance is supposed to do, isn't it?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -Ted

I didn't thoroughly follow the many posts in this thread, but I think 
the answers to "why is it behaving like this" questions and other 
results should be written down somewhere, maybe in the FAQ or 
at RubyGarden. Volunteers? :-)

Thanks in advance,
Pit