From: Perry Smith <pedzsan@...>
Date: 2012-08-03T23:14:40+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:46964] Re: (Half-baked DRAFT) new `require' framework


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On Aug 3, 2012, at 5:21 AM, Joshua Ballanco wrote:

> On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 at 3:29 PM, SASADA Koichi wrote:
>> (2) load script from location from other than `file system'.
>> (example: require from zip archive, require over network,
>> require files provided by gem efficiently using file location db)
>=20
> I'll echo what Charles said in his response: file lookup and code =
loading should be handled independently. I would even go so far as to =
say that code loading could be made an independent API from require, =
enabling the loading of code from memory or, say, from a network socket.=20=


The configure / build code does a magic dance to basically load from a =
string.  So we have a use case for loading code from memory.  Loading =
from a socket sounds exciting too.



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<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Aug 3, 2012, at 5:21 AM, Joshua Ballanco wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
                <div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><span style="color: rgb(160, 160, 168); ">On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 at 3:29 PM, SASADA Koichi wrote:</span></div>
                <blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;"><span><div><div><div>(2) load script from location from other than `file system'.</div><div>    (example: require from zip archive, require over network,</div><div>     require files provided by gem efficiently using file location db)</div></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'll echo what Charles said in his response: file lookup and code loading should be handled independently. I would even go so far as to say that code loading could be made an independent API from require, enabling the loading of code from memory or, say, from a network socket.&nbsp;</div></blockquote><br></div><div>The configure / build code does a magic dance to basically load from a string. &nbsp;So we have a use case for loading code from memory. &nbsp;Loading from a socket sounds exciting too.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>
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