From: "Berger, Daniel" <djberge@...>
Date: 2002-08-08T21:38:22+09:00
Subject: RE: struct needs to be a constant?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: GOTO Kentaro [mailto:gotoken@notwork.org]
> At Thu, 8 Aug 2002 05:27:27 +0900,
> Daniel Berger wrote:
> 
> > test.rb:3:in `require': identifier Proto::ProtoStruct needs 
> to be constant (NameError) from 
> > test.rb:3
> 
> > void Init_proto()
> > {
> >    VALUE np_mNet;
> >    np_mNet = rb_define_module("Net");
> >    cNetProto = rb_define_class_under(np_mNet,"Proto",rb_cObject);
> > 
> >    sProto = 
> rb_struct_define("Proto::ProtoStruct","name","aliases","number",0);
> >   rb_global_variable(&sProto);
> 
> try replacing the last two lines by
> 
>   sProto = 
> rb_struct_define("ProtoStruct","name","aliases","number",0);
>   rb_define_const(cNetProto, "ProtoStruct", sProto);

Actually, it looks like either a bug or a behaviorial change in 1.7.2.  I
don't get this error with 1.6.7.

I'll grab the nightly build and see if that changes anything.

Regards,

Dan