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Avoiding Naming Collisions with Namespaces

module StringTheory   class String     def initialize(length=10**-33)       @length = length     end   end end String.new                                       # => "" StringTheory::String.new module StringTheory2  RubyString = String  class String    def initialize(length=10**-33)      @length = length    end   end   RubyString.new("This is a built-in string, not a StringTheory2::String") end # => "This is a built-in string, not a StringTheory2::String"