From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-11-25T23:03:32+09:00
Subject: Re: VERSION constant issue

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Intransition <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ruby's VERSION constant is getting in the way of using #const_missing
> in my module. Here's some example code:
>
>  module Foo
>    def self.const_data
>      @const_data ||= { 'version' => '1.0.0' }
>    end
>
>    def self.const_missing(name)
>      key = name.to_s.downcase
>      const_data[key] || super(name)
>    end
>  end
>
>  Foo::VERSION  #=> '1.8.7'
>
> How can I fix this?
>
> I tried `remove_const(:VERSION)` at the toplevel but discovered that
> some Ruby library don't like that (sorry, can't recall which it was
> off hand).

Is this really an issue with ::VERSION?  To me this rather looks like
an issue with lookup logic (either the general or yours) since the
same would apply to all other constants, wouldn't it?

Kind regards

robert

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