I was reading through the source of Artifice and saw:

module Artifice
  NET_HTTP = ::Net::HTTP
  # ...
end

line: https://github.com/wycats/artifice/blob/master/lib/artifice.rb#L6

Why not just do Net::HTTP instead of ::Net::HTTP, i.e., what does it mean when you use :: as a prefix?

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