From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...>
Date: 2009-01-29T17:00:17+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21664] Re: use of require thread safety

In article <20090129074705.0CF14E0B6E@mail.bc9.jp>,
  Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org> writes:

> Currentry, it will cause a fatal error.  By checking before
> actually requiring, it might be possible to emit a warning, or
> to just return false.

I couldn't see a fatal error.

% cat foo.rb
require 'bar'
% cat bar.rb
require 'foo'
% ./ruby -I. -ve 'require "foo"'
ruby 1.9.1p5000 (2009-01-29 trunk 21875) [i686-linux]
% 

Note that fatal error is ok (for me).
-- 
Tanaka Akira