From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-02-15T03:53:06+09:00
Subject: Re: accessing constants from class methods

Hi --

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Mark wrote:

> 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

Yes, that much I saw :-)  What I didn't get was what the problem
was to begin with.  self::X looked to me like it worked fine.


David

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David A. Black
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