From: Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery@...>
Date: 2002-12-13T17:46:48+09:00
Subject: ruby namespaces

Hello,

	I looked in the pickaxe book for details about namespaces, there is mention 
of modules, but though i'm not sure, I think it's not what I want.
	Look at this:
-----------8<-----------------
class Method
	def initialize()
		puts "ok"
	end
end

Method.new()
-------------------------------
ruby -w test.rb
test1.rb:7: undefined method `new' for Method:Class (NameError)
--------------------------------

If I replace "Method" by "MyMethod", i get as an output "ok". So I conclude 
that ruby already provides a class named "Method". I would like to still be 
able to have my own class named "Method", either by wrapping the ruby method 
in its own namespace, which i would do in C++ say like this:
namespace base {
#	include <base.h>
};

either by putting my own class in a namespace (is it enough? if i'm one 
"namespace", will my class be preffered to those in the root namespace?).

does ruby have such facilities?

thank you,

emmanuel
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