Ruby Box – Ruby's In-Process Separation of Classes and Modules
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Ruby Programming Language
In-Process Separation
Ruby 4.0 Feature
The Ruby language is introducing a new feature called 'box' for in-process separation of classes and modules, formerly known as 'Namespace', which is expected to be part of Ruby 4.0.
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