Feature #16430
closed
Resultion of constants in enclosing class/module affected by how nested classes/modules are declared
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
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