From: Hongli Lai <hongli@...99.net>
Date: 2009-08-30T04:10:55+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:25184] Re: [Feature #1961] Kernel#__dir__

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: [ruby-core:25182] Re: [Feature #1961] Kernel#__dir__"
>     on Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:57:44 +0900, Magnus Holm <judofyr@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> |Wouldn't it be a little confusing to remember that __FILE__ is uppercase and
> |__dir__ is downcase? Doesn't sound very POLS to me...
> 
> __FILE__ is a keyword and __dir__ is a method.  I'd like to emphasize
> this difference but I'm open to hear opinion from others.
> 
> 							matz.
> 
> 

I think it should be __DIR__ for consistency. There are no other __ things in Ruby
that are lowercase. I think whether __dir__ is a keyword or a function should be an
implementation detail.