From: Daniel Sheppard <daniels@...>
Date: 2004-04-07T09:10:07+09:00
Subject: Different types of include

How is an 'include' outside of a module different from one inside a
module. Where does the outer 'include' come from (the only documented
include method is on Module).

The following code works:

require 'fox'
include Fox
module MyModule
  class MyClass
    def hello; puts FXTreeList; end
  end
end

The following does not:
module MyModule
  require 'fox'
  include Fox
  class MyClass
    def hello; puts FXTreeList; end
  end
end

I was under the impression that part of the mechanism of include was to
include the constants defined in the other module. 

Is the only way to keep your namespace clean to use Fox::FXTreeList
everywhere and avoid top-level includes?

(this isn't a problem with fox, due to the fact that fox always has FX
on the classname prefix, but I can see that it could be a problem with
other modules).

Daniel Sheppard
http://jroller.net/page/soxbox 
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