From: merch-redmine@... Date: 2020-07-09T21:16:09+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:99100] [Ruby master Bug#16988] Kernel.load loads file from current directory without '.' in path Issue #16988 has been updated by jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans). TheSmartnik (Nikita Misharin) wrote in #note-2: > nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) wrote in #note-1: > > I don���t this is an implementation bug, but a documentation issue. > > Shouldn't behavior be consistent with require, though? I don't think so. `load` has always been able to load files that exist relative to the current directory, and `require` has not. Technically, in Ruby <1.9, `require` worked similarly because `'.'` was in the default load path). `load` and `require` are different in many other ways, and changing this to increase the consistency between them doesn't make sense to me. Changing `load`'s behavior would definitely break things. I agree with @nobu that this is a documentation issue, and I'll try to update the documentation to explain it. ---------------------------------------- Bug #16988: Kernel.load loads file from current directory without '.' in path https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/16988#change-86474 * Author: TheSmartnik (Nikita Misharin) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal * ruby -v: 2.7.1 * Backport: 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN, 2.7: UNKNOWN ---------------------------------------- Ruby allows to load files using ```Kernel.load``` without explicitly specifying the relative path with ```.``` I'm not sure it's a bug or a feature, but since documentation in master doesn't say anything about it and the behavior differs from require where it was changed intentionally, I consider it a bug ## Reproduction steps 1. Have a file (```file.rb```) in a directory 2. Start irb session in the directory 3. Load a file: ```load 'file.rb'``` ## Tested in versions - 2.7.1 - 2.6.6 - 2.5.3 -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ Unsubscribe: