From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
Date: 2003-10-02T23:06:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Absolute class name?

MJR =  me
NN = Nobu Nokada

MJR> How can I force a reference to the top-level Foo no matter what
MJR> namespace I'm in?  class ::Foo is a syntax error.

NN> It works in 1.8.

I beg to differ; I'm running 1.8.0 final (not preview) release,
unpatched, and I get a syntax error:

	irb(main):001:0> RUBY_VERSION
	=> "1.8.0"
	irb(main):002:0> class ::Foo
	SyntaxError: compile error
	(irb):2: syntax error
	class ::Foo
	        ^
	        from (irb):2
	irb(main):003:0> 

NN> If you use 1.6 still,

NN>   class X
NN>     ::Object.class_eval do
NN>       class Foo
NN>       end
NN>     end
NN>   end

That works.  Thanks!

-Mark