From: "NARUSE, Yui" <naruse@...>
Date: 2010-03-25T12:27:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:28970] Re: [Feature #1961] Kernel#__dir__

2010/3/24 Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@headius.com>:
> This is nice but would not be backward compatible with code that depends on
> __FILE__ actually being a string (any code that splits on / or builds a path
> with + "../" for example. Maybe a subclass of String? Is there a down side
> to that?
>
> class FileString < String
> �def dir
> � �File.dirname(self)
> �end
> end

Why don't you use Pathname?

note:
Including pathname lib to core is sometimes discussed in core members.
But it is not concrete yet.

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