From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-12-28T01:07:55+09:00
Subject: Re: change in lookup of constants on 1.6.8?

On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 12:44:32PM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> In message "change in lookup of constants on 1.6.8?"
>     on 02/12/27, Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> writes:
> 
> |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?
> 
> I wanted to make constant scope more static.  It's for readability and
> for future optimization.  There's no way to switch constant scope.

I can see how this would help in optimization.  How does it add
readability?

How big a performance boost do you expect this change (plus future
optimizations) to give?

Paul