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Created October 22, 2013 22:40
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  1. zilkey created this gist Oct 22, 2013.
    21 changes: 21 additions & 0 deletions private_constant.rb
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    module Foo
    class Bar

    end

    private_constant :Bar
    end

    module Foo
    p Bar.new # => works fine because we're scoped to Foo

    class Baz
    p Bar.new # => still fine, because we're still scoped to Foo
    end
    end

    begin
    Foo::Bar # => private constant Foo::Bar referenced
    rescue Exception => e
    puts e.message
    end