From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-02-20T21:14:31+09:00
Subject: Re: module This::Encompassing::That

Hi,

At Thu, 20 Feb 2003 20:02:07 +0900,
Brian Candler wrote:
> > > Would it not be clearer to eliminate the duplication of all those prefixes
> > > though? e.g.
> > > 
> > >   module Utils
> > >     autoload :ClassA, 'utils/classa'
> > >     autoload :ClassB, 'utils/classb'
> > >     autoload :ClassC, 'utils/classc'
> > >     autoload :ClassD, 'utils/classd'
> > >   end
> > 
> > This modification had been discussed in ruby-dev, from
> > [ruby-dev:16165] and [ruby-dev:18103].  Perhaps, the final
> > patch is [ruby-dev:18184].
> 
> Not sure what 'this modification' is, because the above works under 1.6.8
> already as far as I can tell.

Autoload affects only top level constants, even in module
definition.  I suspected that you wanted the files to get
loaded by access to constants under Utils.  Excuse my
misunderstanding.

> Thanks to Babelfish I get from [ruby-dev:18184]:
> 
> "Because Nakata's method very 
> mounting is simple, the air does whether this way it is not to be good
> being.  
> Lottery"

Hmmm,

"Because Nakada's implementation is simple, it looks good
enough for me.

Okuji"

-- 
Nobu Nakada