From: Nasir Khan <rubylearner@...>
Date: 2007-04-17T15:23:28+09:00
Subject: Re: load behavior

IMHO it is definitely not a bug as Kernel.require would just load the
library at the top level as there is no wrap=false equivalent in
require, further the doc says "The name of the loaded feature is added
to the array in $" "

So there is no ambiguity in what it does here.

Kernel.load with wrap=true again does what it says in the doc "loaded
script will be executed under an anonymous module"

which is equivalent to -

mod = Module.new
mod.module_eval("require '2.rb'; X=1")   => true
D                                                       => bar
X                                                        => NameError:
uninitialized constant X

Which brings back to require behavior.

Now you could argue that this may appear to be un-intuitive, but
that's a different issue.

- Nasir


On 4/16/07, John Lam (CLR) <jflam@microsoft.com> wrote:
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