From: "boris_stitnicky (Boris Stitnicky)" <boris@...>
Date: 2013-08-31T18:17:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:56929] [ruby-trunk - Feature #5653] "I strongly	discourage the use of autoload in any standard libraries"	(Re: autoload will be dead)


Issue #5653 has been updated by boris_stitnicky (Boris Stitnicky).


I would also be interested in the answer to se8's question.
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Feature #5653: "I strongly discourage the use of autoload in any standard libraries" (Re: autoload will be dead)
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5653#change-41486

Author: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Status: Assigned
Priority: Normal
Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Category: lib
Target version: current: 2.1.0


 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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