From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2011-03-14T06:13:15+09:00
Subject: Re: can someone explain this?


On Mar 13, 2011, at 13:10 , Andy Bogdanov wrote:

> # First I create a proc:
> p = proc {
>  self::X = Class.new
>  def self.X
>    X.new
>  end
> }
> 
> # Then I create a module:
> A = Module.new(&p)
> puts A.X # => #<A::X:0x9c2e774>
> 
> # Then i create another module:
> B = Module.new(&p)
> puts B.X # => #<B::X:0x9c39304>
> 
> # Everything seems to be ok.
> 
> # And now to the strange part.
> # After module B was created A.X started to return instances of B::X
> puts A.X # => #<B::X:0x9c38238>
> 
> If more modules are created with the same proc method X returns
> instances of X from the last created module. If I use "self::X.new"
> instead of "X.new" everything works as expected, but I can't understand
> why it works like that with "X.new". Is this a bug or it's supposed to
> be this way?

I suggest you send that to ruby-core@