From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-02-01T22:12:46+09:00
Subject: Re: 2 classes, same name

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 09:39:26PM +0900, Tom Sawyer wrote:
> did you know Ruby can have mutiple classes defined with the exact same 
> constant, yet they be different classes?
> 
> module X1
> end
> 
> module X2
> end
> 
> class XX
>   def XX.record(*mods)
>     x = XX.clone
>     x.class_eval { include *mods }
>     return x
>   end
>   def initialize
>     puts self.class.included_modules
>     puts self.class
      puts self.class.id
>     puts
>   end
> end
> 
> xx = XX.record(X1, X2).new
> yy = XX.record(X1).new
  puts "XX: #{XX.id}"

Errr, no?

batsman@tux-chan:/tmp$ ruby e.rb
X2
X1
Kernel
XX
538072192

X1
Kernel
XX
538071272

XX: 538072512



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