From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2002-12-20T05:37:23+09:00
Subject: Re: determing defined constants for a class

Robert McGovern wrote:

> From looking at the docs I can see that it is possible to determine 
> which Constants have been declared for a particular module, but I cannot 
> see a means of finding out what constants have been declared in a 
> particular class.
> 
> This leads to ask, if there a method that I can't see for determining 
> declared constants in a class?

A class is-a module (i.e. the "Class" class is derived from the "Module" 
class). So to determine the constants for a class just call Class#constants.

> ... and secondly, is it considered bad practice to put constants
 > in a class rather than a module?

No.