From: Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@...>
Date: 2009-06-21T01:47:31+09:00
Subject: Re: 'move into' a module's namespace in irb

Am Samstag 20 Juni 2009 18:36:46 schrieb David A. Black:
> On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Max Williams wrote:
> >  I thought that
> >
> > "hello"
> >
> > was the same thing as
> >
> > String.new("hello")
> >
> > , though?  Or, does it bypass the usual lookup table for methods?
>
> It bypasses.

And if it didn't, it would very likely be the same thing as 
::String.new("hello"), not String.new("hello"), i.e. it would
use the full path to the constant, not the relative path,
to avoid ambiguity. At least I would consider anything else
to be confusing.