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Feature #16430

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Resultion of constants in enclosing class/module affected by how nested classes/modules are declared

Added by MikeVastola (Mike Vastola) over 4 years ago. Updated over 4 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Assignee:
-
Target version:
-
[ruby-core:96291]

Description

I'm not sure if this is intentional (in which case it really isn't documented anywhere, and probably should be) or a bug, but imagine the following code:

# lib/a.rb
module A
  FOO = :BAR
end

# lib/a/b.rb
require_relative '../a'
module A::B
  def self.foo
    FOO
  end
end

# lib/a/c.rb
require_relative '../a'
module A
  module C
    def self.foo
      FOO
    end
  end
end

If I were to evaluate A::B.foo, I would trigger a NoMethodError (undefined method 'foo' for A::B:Module).
However, if I were to evaluate A::C.foo, I would get :BAR.

This was really confusing to debug because I've been writing the more compact syntax forever where possible without realizing it impacted variable resolution, and it seems kind of bizarre and counter-intuitive that it would work this way.


Also, playing with this a bit more, there are some really weird artifacts going on: apparently different methods within the same class/module can have different nestings depending on the context in which they were added to the class?

For example:

module A
  X = 1
end

module A::B
  X = 6
end

module A
  module B::C
    Y = 9
    Z = X + Y # 10
  end
end

module A::B
  module C
    N = X + Y # 15
  end
end


Related issues 2 (1 open1 closed)

Is duplicate of Ruby master - Bug #11705: Namespace resolution in nested modules with short syntaxRejectedActions
Is duplicate of Ruby master - Feature #6810: `module A::B; end` is not equivalent to `module A; module B; end; end` with respect to constant lookup (scope)Assignedmatz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)Actions
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