From: Mark <msparshatt@...>
Date: 2004-02-15T01:02:05+09:00
Subject: Re: accessing constants from class methods

David A. Black wrote:

>OK, it's probably something simple but I'm staring and staring at the
>original code, and its output (which is the same as daz's code), and I
>can't figure out why it wasn't OK.
>
>Explanations welcome :-)
>
>  
>

The origional code defines x as

def x
  # defined?(self::X)  ? self::X : nil
end

while daz's code says

def x
  const_defined?(:X) ? const_get(:X) : nil
end

it uses const_defined and const_get

Best Regards 

Mark Sparshatt