From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-08-13T02:48:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Nested class/module namespace

Hi,

In message "Nested class/module namespace"
    on 03/08/12, "Nathaniel Talbott" <nathaniel@NOSPAMtalbott.ws> writes:

|Why does the second case fail? It makes me not want to use the second
|version, since it means I have to fully-qualify all constants in the
|enclosing namespace, instead of just using them as I usually do. I hope it's
|just a bug :-/.

Unfortunately, it's not.  "class M::C" notation is not a syntax sugar
for 'module M; class C".  It is something like "M::C = Class.new", so
that the body of C definition is not nested in the M body.

							matz.