From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-02-20T23:06:55+09:00
Subject: Re: module This::Encompassing::That


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On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:14:31PM +0900, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> 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.

No, it is me who still misunderstands :-) I did:

  a = Utils::ClassA.new

and it worked. Attached is a full example, which gives:

$ ruby main.rb
I am foo
99
I am bar
123
$ 

Regards,

Brian.

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#!/usr/local/bin/ruby -w

module Utils
  autoload :ClassA, 'classa'
  autoload :ConstB, 'constb'
  autoload :ClassC, 'classc'
  autoload :ConstD, 'constd'
end

a = Utils::ClassA.new
a.foo

b = Utils::ConstB
puts b

module Utils
  c = ClassC.new
  c.bar
  d = ConstD
  puts d
end

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class ClassA
  def foo
    puts "I am foo"
  end
end

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ConstB = 99

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class ClassC
  def bar
    puts "I am bar"
  end
end

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ConstD = 123

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