From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2002-11-12T04:58:33+09:00
Subject: Re: [FAQ] Why use 'include'

On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 04:26:42 +0900, Eric Schwartz wrote:
> I'm not sure what this example is intended to illustrate. It
> certainly matches up with what I wrote. When the "require 'c'"
> code is executed, it loads c.rb. The last statement of c.rb is
> 'include M', which means that anybody 'require'ing c.rb will
> automatically import all the classes and methods (and variables)
> of module M into its current namespace. (Which I tried to indicate
> is often a bad idea, as a module writer.)

Actually, the problem I think Guy had with the way it was written
was that it was "file"-based; his example shows that it's more
object-scope based over file-based.

-austin
-- Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2002.11.11 at 14.57.28