From: elbows@... (Nathan Weston)
Date: 2003-05-11T11:30:22+09:00
Subject: Overriding class variables

In ruby 1.6.8, overriding class variables cause weird (to me at least)
results:

class Foo
  Const = 0

  def c
    Const
  end
end

class Bar < Foo
  Const = 1
end

print Bar.new.c

will print "0". Apparently, since Bar.c really calls Foo.c, when it
looks up the class variable Const, it looks it up in Foo.
However, this seems odd to me -- I expected the above code to print
"1".
Is it supposed to work this way (and if so, why?), or have I
discovered a bug in ruby?

Nathan