From: Max Williams <toastkid.williams@...>
Date: 2009-06-21T01:28:14+09:00
Subject: Re: 'move into' a module's namespace in irb

David A. Black wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Max Williams wrote:
> 
>>>> String.new.class
>> a weird way.
> When you do irb M, you're putting M before all else in the constant
> resolution path. So String.new is really M::String.new. "hello" is
> still a ::String (top-level, core String class), because the existence
> of M::String does not affect the behavior of the literal quotation
> marks (which create a ::String).
> 
> 
> David

ah, ok.  I thought that

"hello"

was the same thing as

String.new("hello")

, though?  Or, does it bypass the usual lookup table for methods?
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