[ruby-core:68780] [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 Paulo Henrique Lopes Ribeiro.


Do we have a decision for this?

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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-52058

* Author: Yukihiro Matsumoto
* Status: Assigned
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: Yukihiro Matsumoto
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 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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