From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-10-03T08:05:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Absolute class name?

Hi,

At Fri, 3 Oct 2003 00:06:47 +0900,
Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Okay, it is apparently included in the diffs, but it doesn't work:
> 
> 	irb(main):001:0> RUBY_RELEASE_DATE
> 	=> "2003-09-09"
> 	irb(main):002:0> class ::Foo
> 	SyntaxError: compile error
> 	(irb):2: parse error
> 	        from (irb):2
> 	irb(main):003:0>

The parser in irb hasn't been updated.

$ ruby -v -e 'class ::Foo; p self; end'
ruby 1.8.0 (2003-10-02) [i686-linux]
Foo
$ irb
irb(main):001:0> class ::Foo; p self; end
Foo
=> nil
irb(main):002:0> class ::Foo
SyntaxError: compile error
(irb):2: syntax error
	from (irb):2
	from :0

-- 
Nobu Nakada