[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.

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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
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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



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