[ruby-core:47611] Re: autoload & require

I think it has been discussed before, but autoload really should
redispatch to require. As it stands today, I don't think it picks up
e.g. RubyGems require hooks either, even though RubyGems is a
standard, built-in feature now.

- Charlie

On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Zachary Scott <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Kernel#autoload uses rb_autoload, which is defined in variable.c[1]
>
> https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/variable.c#L1570
>
> Beyond that, I'm not sure of the rationale.
>
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Xavier Noria <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to decorate Kernel#require. While the wrapper works well with
>> regular require calls, I have seen it is not called by Kernel#autoload. Is
>> autoload using a custom C function? If so, is there a rationale for that?
>>
>