From c0d4ba9f405847fee2c4fbc3c75d305d2a52a856 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: drbrain Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 00:14:58 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * doc/syntax/refinements.rdoc: Improve description of where you may activate refinements. git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@42320 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e --- ChangeLog | 5 +++++ doc/syntax/refinements.rdoc | 8 +++++--- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index cf392d02d1..5b41172b48 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +Fri Aug 2 09:14:47 2013 Eric Hodel + + * doc/syntax/refinements.rdoc: Improve description of where you may + activate refinements. + Fri Aug 2 07:45:55 2013 Tanaka Akira * bignum.c (big2str_orig): Remove len argument. diff --git a/doc/syntax/refinements.rdoc b/doc/syntax/refinements.rdoc index 519082e2f9..752f668923 100644 --- a/doc/syntax/refinements.rdoc +++ b/doc/syntax/refinements.rdoc @@ -48,9 +48,11 @@ Activate the refinement with #using: == Scope -You may activate refinements at top-level to the end of the file or in a -string passed to Kernel#eval, Kernel#instance_eval or Kernel#module_eval until -the end of the string. +You may only activate refinements at top-level, not inside any class, module +or method scope. You may activate refinements in a string passed to +Kernel#eval, Kernel#instance_eval or Kernel#module_eval that is evaluated at +top-level. Refinements are active until the end of the file or the end of the +eval string, respectively. Refinements are lexical in scope. When control is transferred outside the scope the refinement is deactivated. This means that if you require or load a