From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-12-27T06:11:01+09:00
Subject: change in lookup of constants on 1.6.8?

I have a piece of code that does something like the following:

  class Foo
    A = 1
  end

  def foo(&block)
    f = Foo.new
    f.instance_eval(&block)
  end

  foo() do
    p self            #=> #<Foo:0x4027f568>
    p self.class::A   #=> 1
    p A               #=> 1 on 1.6.7; NameError on 1.7 and 1.6.8
  end

What has changed in Ruby to cause this behavior?  Is there a change I
can make to foo() or to Foo to allow the block passed to foo() to work?

Thanks,

Paul