From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-08-26T18:49:55+09:00
Subject: Re: warning modifying constant & 'global constant'

Hi,

In message "warning modifying constant & 'global constant'"
    on 02/08/26, David Garamond <davegaramond@icqmail.com> writes:

|1. if someone attempts to modify a constant, why does ruby choose to 
|emit a warning instead of a fatal error?

If it is a fatal error, something like Ruby embedded editor will meet
serious problems, e.g. 

  M-x eval-ruby-expression
  Eval: Foo = 42<ret>
  bang!

|2. is there a beast called a 'global constant'? i tried defining $Foo 
|and ruby allows me to rebind $Foo later.

No.  $Foo is a plain global variable.

							matz.