Namespacing my classes

[Zouplaz]

Hello, as I want to avoid name clashes I tried to organise them like this (just a fake example, reflecting reality)

lib/mylib.rb contains
module Mylib

   module TestDatas
     FOO = "Ho yeah"
   end

   require 'somelib/tools'
   require 'somelib/motor'
end

somelib/tools.rb contains
class Mylib::Tools
end

somelib/motor.rb contains
class Mylib::Motor

   def something()
  Mylib::TestDatas.FOO
   end

end

Well, I did this by try/error until I had no more execution errors and having them behaving as expected but is there any caveat ?

I'm just suprised by the location of the requires statements

Thanks

[Pascal_Bourguignon]

Zouplaz <user@domain.invalid> writes:

Hello, as I want to avoid name clashes I tried to organise them like
this (just a fake example, reflecting reality)

lib/mylib.rb contains
module Mylib

  module TestDatas
    FOO = "Ho yeah"
  end

  require 'somelib/tools'
  require 'somelib/motor'
end

somelib/tools.rb contains
class Mylib::Tools
end

somelib/motor.rb contains
class Mylib::Motor

  def something()
  Mylib::TestDatas.FOO
  end

end

Well, I did this by try/error until I had no more execution errors and
having them behaving as expected but is there any caveat ?

I'm just suprised by the location of the requires statements

You don't need to put these requires inside the module blocks.

Instead, you could write:

(module MyLib
  (module TestData
    (FOO = "abc")
  end)
end)

(module MyLib
  (class Tool
  end)
end)

(module MyLib
  (class Motor
    (def something
      (TestData::FOO)
    end)
  end)
end)

That is, if you avoid the (class Abc::Def::Ghi ... end) form, then
modules namespaces will be created automatically when needed.

Then, how you spread the forms over files and execute require is up to
you and doesn't matter much.

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__Pascal Bourguignon__

[Yossef_Mendelssohn]

What are all those parentheses about?

···

On Oct 13, 9:12 am, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) wrote:

(module MyLib
(module TestData
(FOO = "abc")
end)
end)

(module MyLib
(class Tool
end)
end)

(module MyLib
(class Motor
(def something
(TestData::FOO)
end)
end)
end)

--
-yossef

[Robert_K1 (Robert K.)]

(module MyLib
  (module TestData
    (FOO = "abc")
  end)
end)

(module MyLib
  (class Tool
  end)
end)

(module MyLib
  (class Motor
    (def something
      (TestData::FOO)
    end)
  end)
end)

What are all those parentheses about?

Probably a Lisp fan.

$ ruby -cw <<XXX
> (module MyLib
> (module TestData
> (FOO = "abc")
> end)
> end)
> XXX
Syntax OK

To OP, usually this is structured a bit differently:

lib/mylib.rb contains

module MyLib

   module TestData
     FOO = "Ho yeah"
   end

end

require 'mylib/tools'
require 'mylib/motor'

mylib/tools.rb contains

module MyLib
   class Tools
   end
end

mylib/motor.rb contains

module MyLib

   class Motor
     def something()
       TestData::FOO
     end
   end

end

Btw, there is no plural of "data" in English AFAIK.

Kind regards

  robert

···

On 13.10.2008 18:49, Yossef Mendelssohn wrote:

On Oct 13, 9:12 am, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) > wrote:

[Zouplaz]

Ho, fine ! I didn't know I could reuse Module MyLib in several place to enclose the classes...

About 'data', I trust you I wish I could find a webchat with people willing to speak French with me, while speaking English with them - I could learn a alot, but for the moment, I just found men masturbating in the dark :-))

···

le 13/10/2008 19:44, Robert Klemme nous a dit:

require 'mylib/tools'
require 'mylib/motor'

mylib/tools.rb contains

module MyLib
  class Tools
  end
end

mylib/motor.rb contains

module MyLib

  class Motor
    def something()
      TestData::FOO
    end
  end

end

Btw, there is no plural of "data" in English AFAIK.

[Robert_K1 (Robert K.)]

require 'mylib/tools'
require 'mylib/motor'

mylib/tools.rb contains

module MyLib
  class Tools
  end
end

mylib/motor.rb contains

module MyLib

  class Motor
    def something()
      TestData::FOO
    end
  end

end

Btw, there is no plural of "data" in English AFAIK.

Ho, fine ! I didn't know I could reuse Module MyLib in several place to enclose the classes...

Note also that you do not need the full namespace path when referencing the const (see above).

About 'data', I trust you I wish I could find a webchat with people willing to speak French with me, while speaking English with them - I could learn a alot, but for the moment, I just found men masturbating in the dark :-))

Well, you never know what it is good for.

There is an IRB chat on freenode - albeit in English.

Cheers

  robert

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On 13.10.2008 21:12, Zouplaz wrote:

le 13/10/2008 19:44, Robert Klemme nous a dit:

[The_Higgs_bozo]

Robert Klemme wrote:

There is an IRB chat on freenode - albeit in English.

IRB chat! Now that's an awesome typo. Or maybe a Freudian slip? You
know you're a programmer when the distinction between IRB and IRC is
blurred.

···

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[Robert_K1 (Robert K.)]

LOL! It was definitively unconscious. I was probably distracted. I leave the interpretation to you.

Cheers

  robert

PS: Are you the unknown particle that they now cannot find because the collider at Cern is broken?

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On 13.10.2008 22:43, The Higgs bozo wrote:

Robert Klemme wrote:

There is an IRB chat on freenode - albeit in English.

IRB chat! Now that's an awesome typo. Or maybe a Freudian slip? You know you're a programmer when the distinction between IRB and IRC is blurred.