[ruby-core:47524] [ruby-trunk - Feature #3346] __DIR__ revisted

Issue #3346 has been updated by rogerdpack (Roger Pack).


definitely recommend full path to avoid possible confusion, like we used to have with 1.8.x not using the full path for $: but that's just my opinion...
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Feature #3346: __DIR__ revisted
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/3346#change-29297

Author: trans (Thomas Sawyer)
Status: Assigned
Priority: Normal
Assignee: yhara (Yutaka HARA)
Category: core
Target version: 2.0.0


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 I'd like to know why __DIR__ was rejected? I use File.dirname(__FILE__) all the time, and I frequently see others do so as well. #relative_require is helpful but it covers only one specific use case --and probably not the most common one. I am often using File.dirname(__FILE__) in build scripts, when I am loading examples for tests, and when I load output templates or other pluggable modules that reside relative to my code. For something so common, having to clutter my code with a 22 character sequence, when an perfectly obvious 7 character sequence would do semms very uncharacteristic of Ruby, which is usually quite concise. Indeed, it is not uncommon to see code that defines a constant such as DIR = File.dirname(__FILE__) when it will be used more than once because it quickly becomes an eye-sore. For these reasons I hope you will reconsider the earlier rejection.
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