From: suteerth <sutirthatheone@...>
Date: 2012-01-23T02:56:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Why do I receive this error?

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Your action1 in Initialization and testforaccess in ThoughtProcess might as
well be class methods instead of instance methods going by your current
code. If you do that, you can then say Initialization.action1 inside your
initialize method in RoboEngine.

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Paet Worlds II <paetilium@live.com> wrote:

> Dave Aronson wrote in post #1042042:
> > On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 11:42, Paet Worlds II <paetilium@live.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> And here is the error I get:
> >>
> >> C:\Users\Paetilium\Desktop\RoboSteve\RoboEngine.rb:5:in `initialize':
> >> uninitialized constant RoboEngine::Init (NameError)
> >
> > What the error message is saying is that within the context of
> > RoboEngine::initialize, it has no clue what Init is, and the first
> > letter is uppercase so it's taking it as a constant.  There are (at
> > least) two ways you can fix this.
> >
> > The horrible ugly klugy way that should make everyone want to rinse
> > their eyeballs in bleach for having read it, is to make Init a global
> > variable.  This is So Wrong that I'm not going to tell you how, though
> > you could easily Google it.
> >
> > The cleaner way would be to make Init, within RoboEngine#initialize, a
> > *parameter*.  (Of course, you'd then lowercase the name, at least the
> > first letter, so it's no longer a constant.)  That has many
> > advantages.  Mainly, you will certainly know what it is, because it's
> > been passed in.  Also, the caller won't have to have set up something
> > specifically called Init, it can call it whatever it wants, and even
> > have several of them to choose from at call time.
> >
> > Note that you'll have the same problem with ThoughtP in
> > Initialization#action1.
> >
> > Any time you have Ruby complaining about not knowing what something
> > is, like method missing, uninitialized constant, etc., ask yourself:
> > how is it supposed to know, and is that good clean engineering or a
> > horrible quick and dirty kluge, in which case what would be better?
> >
> > -Dave
>
>
>
>
>
> Well.. I tried that and received:
>
> C:\Users\PandE\Desktop\RoboSteve\RoboEngine.rb:5:in `initialize':
> undefined local variable or method `init' for #<RoboEngine:0x2f7f2faa>
> (NameError)
>        from C:\Users\PandE\Desktop\RoboSteve\RoboEngine.rb:58:in `new'
>        from C:\Users\PandE\Desktop\RoboSteve\RoboEngine.rb:58
>
> I mean... I don't even know what "#<0x2f7f2faa> means...
>
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