My solution, when I am going to be using the class name a lot, is to put an alias at the top of the file, for example, SArray = System::Array. That allows me to save some characters, and come close to what include System would have done.
JD ...there is no try From: ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Shri Borde Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 2:32 PM To: Tomas Matousek Cc: ironruby-core@rubyforge.org Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Math module after "include System" So only constants and classes that did not already exist are copied? The docs don't mention this. Oh well. Something for folks to be aware of if they do "include System". Names like Math, Thread, etc which clash between Ruby and the System namespace will not be copied... From: Tomas Matousek Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 2:06 PM To: Shri Borde Subject: RE: Math module after "include System" Yes, that is expected. The Ruby equivalent would be: module S class Math end end include S p Math.singleton_methods ["atan", "frexp", "sin", "exp", "tanh", "erf", "asin", "sqrt", "cos", "atanh", "sinh", "hypot", "acos", "log10", "atan2" , "asinh", "cosh", "ldexp", "tan", "log", "acosh", "erfc"] Tomas From: Shri Borde Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 1:31 PM To: Tomas Matousek Subject: Math module after "include System" After doing "include System", I was expecting System.Math to be directly accessible. However "Math" still refers to the Ruby builtin module. Is this expected? c:\vsl\Merlin\Main\Languages\Ruby\Samples\Tutorial>rbx IronRuby 0.5.0.0 on .NET 2.0.50727.3053 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. >>> Math.methods(false).sort => ["acos", "acosh", "asin", "asinh", "atan", "atan2", "atanh", "cos", "cosh", "erf", "erfc", "exp", "frexp", "hypot", " ldexp", "log", "log10", "sin", "sinh", "sqrt", "tan", "tanh"] >>> include System => Object >>> AppDomain => System::AppDomain >>> Math => Math >>> Thanks, Shri
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