[ruby-core:95286] [Ruby master Feature#16246] require with an optional block that is evaluated when requiring fails

Issue #16246 has been reported by sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada).

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Feature #16246: require with an optional block that is evaluated when requiring fails
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/16246

* Author: sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
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I have some code like this:

```ruby
begin
  require "foo"
rescue LoadError
  puts "You need to install foo in order to have the function A work."
  ...
end
```

I request to allow `require` to take a block which is executed when requiring fails. When `require` takes a block, a `LoadError` would not be raised. The code above would then be written like:

```ruby
require "foo" do
  puts "You need to install foo in order to have the function A work."
  ...
end
```

If there is no need to particularly do anything, then it can be like

```ruby
require("foo"){}
```

which will cover the use case in https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14565.



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