From: "yhara (Yutaka HARA)" <redmine@...>
Date: 2013-02-27T10:48:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:52976] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7975] Why __dir__, not __DIR__


Issue #7975 has been updated by yhara (Yutaka HARA).


That is becuase __dir__ is a method, whereas __FILE__ is not.

  $ ruby -ve 'p Kernel.methods'
  ruby 2.0.0p0 (2013-02-24 revision 39474) [x86_64-darwin12.2.1]
  [:sprintf, :format, :Integer, :Float, :String, :Array, :Hash, :warn, :raise, :fail,
  :global_variables, :__method__, :__callee__, :__dir__, :eval, .....

__dir__ is prefered to avoid adding a new keyword (see #1961.)
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Bug #7975: Why __dir__, not __DIR__
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7975#change-37128

Author: yimutang (Joey Zhou)
Status: Rejected
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 
ruby -v: 2.0


There's a __FILE__ in Ruby 1.x, no __file__
Why __dir__ in Ruby 2.0 is downcase?

It's not consistent.


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