From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-05-01T04:40:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Why defining a constant in a method is not allowed but using   self.class.const_set is allowed?

On 30.04.2011 21:25, Iņaki Baz Castillo wrote:
> Hi, assinging a value to a constant within a method is not allowed
> (SyntaxError:: dynamic constant assignment) but I can use
> self.class.const_set within a method. Which is the difference?

You described the difference pretty accurately.  It is quite common for 
Ruby to forbid doing bad things directly while still leaving a way to do 
it nevertheless (just think of private methods and #send).

Kind regards

	robert

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