From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-09-14T14:44:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Dot versus double-colon

Michael Garriss wrote:
> Michael Garriss wrote:
> 
>> Hal Fulton wrote:
>>
>>> Even though it looks almost like recursion. Hmm, that raises
>>> the question of why/how this works.
>>>
>>> And another issue is: One *could* write a little module that,
>>> when included in a class, exposed all the class's constants in
>>> this way. Within five minutes I had it "almost" working. I'll
>>> bet someone in another timezone or with more caffeine could
>>> have it working in three. Anyone?
>>>
>>> Hal
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> module Dot
>>  def Dot.append_features( mod )
>>    mod.constants.each{|c| mod.class_eval( "def self.#{c}() 
>> #{mod}::#{c} end" ) }
>>  end
>> end
>>
> 
> Has to be included after all consts are defined......working on that......

constant_added might help. and fyi, I was trying to use
define_method rather than eval'ing a string. wonder if
the techniques are interchangeable?

I'll worry about it in the morning.

Hal