Confusing behaviour of const_get in Ruby?

Question

According to the documentation mod.const_get(sym) \"Returns the value of the named constant in mod.\"

I also know that const_get by default may

Answer 1

I came up with the following script to load name spaced constants:

def load_constant(name)
  parts = name.split('::')
  klass = Module.const_get(parts.shift)
  klass = klass.const_get(parts.shift) until parts.empty?
  klass
end