From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2004-02-25T07:50:04+09:00
Subject: Re: instance_eval and constants

Aron Griffis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I think this used to work in the past, but isn't working with recent
> Ruby versions (since sometime in the 1.6.x stream):
> 
>   class MyClass
>     SomeConstant = 1
>     def MyClass.block(&block)
>       instance_eval(&block)
>     end
>   end
>   
>   MyClass.block { puts SomeConstant }

     MyClass.block { puts self::SomeConstant }

That overrides the static scoping, at least in the current 1.9.0. But I 
don't know what's going to happen in the future.