Rails - Jan 2006 - subclasses_of - why does it ignore subclasses within modules?

ActiveSupport provides a method Object.subclasses_of, to give the
subclasses of a given class.  However, it ignores any subclass within
a module, so :

class A
end

class B < A
end

Object.subclasses_of(A) # returns [B]

module C
  class D < A
  end
end

Object.subclasses_of(A) # returns [B], even though C::D is also a subclass of A

class E < C::D
end

Object.subclasses_of(A) # returns [B, E], even though C::D isn''t
returned

This behaviour has been very deliberately built into the code, but
seems to be plainly wrong.  Can anyone provide any insight why this is
so?

Tom
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