Re: [libxml-devel] Breaking old classes

[Charlie Savage]

Trans wrote:

On Jul 17, 12:15 pm, Charlie Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Something we didn't consider with the new LibXML namespace.

We broke everyone's extensions.  For instance, I was emailed this example:

Comment out the following 4 lines and the test will pass (in 0.8.1).
class XML::Document
     def a_methodname_very_unlikely_to_be_used_in_this_class arg
     end
end

Which of course doesn't work anymore, since it should be
LibXML::XML::Document.

No. That's not correct:

module LibXML
  class XML
  end
end

=> nil
?> include LibXML
=> Object

class XML
  def q; "q"; end
end

=> nil

XML.new.q

=> "q"

What's the problem?

module XML
  include LibXML::XML
end



Charlie

Without the include LibXML its broken... And we're not mixing LibXML into the global namespace at the moment. What we are doing is this:

T.
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