From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2008-12-04T00:59:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20260] Re: Behavior: autoload calls rb_require()  directly

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 11:49:49PM +0900, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> require plugins would only advise the require process of additional  
> paths, extensions, what have you. They would not perform the actual  
> load. Yes, it would still be order dependent, but any plugin in the  
> chain could opt out of finding a library and allow the other mechanisms  
> to fire.

How is that different from overriding require, which also allows
opt-out?

Also, I thought on 1.9 rubygems was no longer using the require hook,
but instead modifying $:?  (at least, that's what I remembered coming
out of the discussion at 2007 rubyconf)

Paul