From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-01-27T00:44:36+09:00
Subject: Re: cascading configuration variables

Hi,

At Mon, 27 Jan 2003 00:15:38 +0900,
Wilbert Berendsen wrote:
> I would like the variables with their values to be accessible as constants, 
> because I think that is faster than hash lookups, and it looks elegant, 
> because they will get referenced often from other script snippets that get 
> loaded after the config is read.

Retrieving a constant needs to traverse the ancestors of that
module, it isn't always faster than hash access.  I agree it
looks simple/elegant.

> I figure that I can use modules to carry constants. Eg.
> 
> module Conf
> 	include load ("userdefaults.conf", true)
> 	include load ("systemdefaults.conf", true)
> end

I'm sorry to confuse you, Kernel#load never return created
wrapper modules.  I wrote `If it were return', it was just a
suggestion to modify.  Use module_eval as you wrote, or
module_load I wrote, instead.

-- 
Nobu Nakada