From: David Corbin <dcorbin@...>
Date: 2002-03-18T21:16:09+09:00
Subject: Re: eval/Module question (clearer)

Ron Jeffries wrote:

>Around Sunday, March 17, 2002, 9:13:29 PM, David Corbin wrote:
>
>>If you'll accept that the call to eval has to appear in the module Gamma 
>>(this is just sample code), how can I get my Alpha module to not be 
>>inside Gamma?  (i.e., so the second string of const_get() works.
>>
>
>I don't recall the details because it was a long time ago, but I think
>that if you use eval inside the module, the thing you eval is defined
>inside the module. You can probably find Gamma::Alpha.
>
>So what Chet and I did was to define a method OUTSIDE of our module,
>and then call it from within.
>
>Ron Jeffries
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>
Seems to me there is a weakness in the language here....