From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2008-12-04T03:30:40+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20267] Re: Behavior: autoload calls rb_require()  directly

On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 03:01:33AM +0900, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> If someone installs a new require that doesn't call the old one, the  
> entire chain breaks. With a plugin, the require process would be pulling  
> from the plugins, and a nil result means the next in the chain is tried.  
> The only way to stop the sequence would be to successfully return a 
> result.

I'm having trouble imagining code that doesn't call the old require.  I
guess it could use eval() and fix up $" itself, or it could call the C
rb_require().

I've never seen code that does either, though.

Paul