From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-08-18T17:59:26+09:00
Subject: Re: uninitialized constant Myclass (NameError)

On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 04:17:08PM +0900, Dalibor Sramek wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> The following code worked in 1.6.8:
> 
> require 'Mymodule'
> 
> include Mymodule

This includes Mymodule in Object (and hence in every Ruby object), are
you sure you want to do that?

> class Myclass
>   def quack2(q)
>     puts q
>   end
> end
> 
> (Myclass was defined in Mymodule.rb within the module)
> 
> Now I get mc.rb:5: uninitialized constant Myclass (NameError)
> 
> If I change the line to: class Mymodule::Myclass
> it works again.
> 
> I believe that using module::class notation is an option and the original way 
> should still work. Am I right?

I think what you really wanted was

class Mymodule
  class Myclass
   ...
  end
end

but nonetheless it's good to know that this has changed.

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