From: Intransition <transfire@...>
Date: 2011-06-10T02:12:05+09:00
Subject: Re: a little challenge - reproduce this error



On Jun 8, 8:39 pm, Christopher Dicely <cmdic...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I could swear that I have run into that error in some things in the
> past (and resolved it by fully qualifying the affected references),
> but now I can't figure out how to reproduce it.

I realize now maybe how I should have phrased this as a challenge

    module X
      class Foo
        def call
          X
        end
      end
    end

Change one line of this code to cause this error:

  uninitialized constant X::Foo::X (NameError)

and without directly calling #raise.

Something like that anyway. Hindsight being 20/20 and all. Of course,
I made it a challenge simply b/c I thought it would be a bit more
interesting that way.

I let this sit for a bit longer then I'll give the lowdown and a
useful tip on how to deal with it when it arises.