From: Francis Hwang <sera@...>
Date: 2002-06-18T02:46:36+09:00
Subject: problem with inner classes

I'm having a problem defining inner classes. The outer class is a 
child of another class, which makes reusing the name for defining 
inner classes a little cumbersome.

For example, if the outer class is:

   class OuterClass < AbstractOuterClass
     ...
   end

and in InnerClass.rb I have:

   class OuterClass
     class InnerClass
       ...
     end
   end

I get the following error:

   warning: already initialized constant OuterClass

... which I'm assuming comes from the fact that the interpreter 
thinks I want to redefine OuterClass as having no parent. If I change 
my InnerClass code to

   class OuterClass < AbstractOuterClass
     class InnerClass
       ...
     end
   end

... then it works. Which is fine, except I have maybe 20 inner 
classes and I'd rather not duplicate the OuterClass inheritance in 
each file.

Any ways I can get around this?

Thanks,

Francis