From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2008-10-14T23:47:33+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:19330] Re: [Feature #643] __DIR__



On Oct 13, 6:02�pm, Dave Thomas <d...@pragprog.com> wrote:
> On Oct 13, 2008, at 4:51 PM, Phil Hagelberg wrote:
>
> > If we don't want to add another toplevel constant, another way to �
> > handle
> > this gracefully would be to have the default argument for File.dirname
> > be the caller's __FILE__. At least 90% of the File.dirname invocations
> > that I write have __FILE__ as their argument, so this would remove a
> > good deal of redundancy.
>
> But with relative_require, suddenly most of those use cases evaporate, �
> no?

Pretty much, but it would take a #relative_load and a
File.relative_read to really cover all common uses. But there are
always those outlay cases too. The thing about __DIR__ is that it is
generally useful for all cases, whereas #relative_require has a single
specific use.

T.