From: "rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas)" <rr.rosas@...>
Date: 2013-02-12T22:38:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:52155] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7835] autoload will be dead


Issue #7835 has been updated by rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas).


Thanks, Yusuke! I tried to search it on Redmine but I couldn't easily find it nor I could filter for issues created by matz, for instance...
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Feature #7835: autoload will be dead
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7835#change-36171

Author: rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas)
Status: Rejected
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 


A while ago matz declared his intention to remove the autoload feature from the Ruby language. It was sent to the ruby-core mailing list but no ticket has been created for it.

I'm creating the ticket now so that we could discuss the idea here.

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Posted by Yukihiro Matsumoto on 2011-11-19 08:12  
Hi,

Today, I talked with NaHi about enhancing const_missing to enable
autoload-like feature with nested modules.  But autoload itself has
fundamental flaw under multi-thread environment.  I should have remove
autoload when I added threads to the language (threads came a few
months after autoload).

So I hereby declare the future deprecation of autoload.  Ruby will
keep autoload for a while, since 2.0 should keep compatibility to 1.9.
But you don't expect it will survive further future, e.g. 3.0.

I strongly discourage the use of autoload in any standard libraries.

              matz.
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