From: niklas | brueckenschlaeger <niklas@...>
Date: 2010-11-15T19:28:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Faking constants with methods

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Well, if I were to change the code that *uses* the constant, I would
change it to a less ambiguous method call. My point is that I want to
keep the rest of the code as is, hiding the fact that it's something
else.
But I guess I'll just leave it and stop investigating on how to write
surprisingly bad code...

On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 19:21 +0900, Quintus wrote:
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> Am 15.11.2010 11:02, schrieb niklas | brueckenschlaeger:
> > Thank you, but that would only work if the constant isn't defined. Mayb=
e
> > I wasn't being clear: I want to override a constant within an object
> > with a method.
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> >   class Bar
> >   end
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> >   class Foo
> >     def Bar
> >     end
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> >     def some_method
> >       Bar.something # this resolves to constant Bar, not method Bar
> >     end
> >   end
> >=20
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> That should be possible with #send:
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> class Bar
> end
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> class Foo
>   def Bar
>   end
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>   def some_method
>     self.send(:Bar).something
>   end
> end
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> Not nice to read, but works. But I'm not sure if that meets your
> original intention of a convenient method to do it...
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> Vale,
> Marvin
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