Lint/Void autocorrection is unsafe when a constant is referenced

[jonleighton]

When I run rubocop -a on this file:

Foo::Bar

class Foo::Bar
end

It rewrites the file like so:

class Foo::Bar
end

However, this is unsafe, due to Ruby's constant autoloading mechanism.

For example, in a Rails app, the constant may be referenced to force it to be loaded from another file, before apply a monkey-patch.

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Expected behavior

Either the file is unchanged, or the change is only applied when unsafe autocorrections are used.

Actual behavior

See above.

Steps to reproduce the problem

1. Put the above into test.rb
2. Run rubocop -a test.rb

RuboCop version

1.54.0 (using Parser 3.2.2.3, rubocop-ast 1.29.0, running on ruby 3.2.2) [aarch64-linux-musl]

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