From: Nathaniel Talbott <nathaniel@...>
Date: 2003-08-13T11:11:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Nested class/module namespace

Austin Ziegler [mailto:austin@halostatue.ca] wrote:

> It makes sense to me.
> 
> You're defining a new constant C in module M. You're not *in* 
> module M. If you do:
> 
>   module M; end
>   M::B = :foo
>   p M::B
> 
> This would be the same as doing:
> 
>   module M; end
>   c = Class.new
>   M::C = c
>   p M::C

OK, I understand how it's behaving... but why? What's the benefit of it
behaving like that? What's the downside of it behaving as nested classes do
now?


Nathaniel

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