From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2009-01-27T08:48:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21584] Re: [Feature #1046] request: ability to run without specifying .rb

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:21579] [Feature #1046] request: ability to run without specifying .rb"
    on Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:03:24 +0900, Roger Pack <redmine@ruby-lang.org> writes:

|The answer is perhaps unsatisfying.

You asked the reason behind load and require, and I answered.  Then I
asked you to show the merit of changing Ruby which you haven't shown,
before asking me to change.  Isn't it reasonable?

|I find the convenience of not having to include the extension on
|'require' commands very appealing and would like to extend its use.
|I can't think of a reason why this would hurt ruby.  Are there any
|drawbacks?

I don't think it hurts Ruby much.  But I think changing/adding feature
require something more than not-hurt-much.  As I said before, typical
use-case of the load method is loading configuration file.  If I have
a configuration file, I'd give it a extension for a configuration
file, even if it uses Ruby syntax.

|And it would be useful, at least for me.  One less tab to
|hit.  I don't want to start a fight but I'm just giving feedback.  At
|times, in Linux it would be convenient, too [mostly when you type in
|the name of a ruby script, and then have to ponder for a second
|whether or not it has an extension, or hit tab several times to try
|and discover it].

This request has two problems: First, you are discussing about two
slightly different issues.  Omitting extension in command lines, and
omitting extension in load method.  You have to separate them.
Second, you made a proposal, but you haven't shown merits of adding
this new feature.  In the follow-up, You just told us reduction of a
few tab hits as a merit.  But I still feel it's little bit weak.

							matz.