From: David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>
Date: 2004-06-12T15:05:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Switch to .ruby extension?

Lothar Scholz wrote:
> Hello Neil,
> 
> NS> Karl von Laudermann wrote:
> 
>>>... we could start using .ruby in new projects.
> 
> NS> What stops you from doing so now?
> 
> Some braindead lines in the ruby interpreter. You can't even "require" rbw files
> without patching the hardcoded extensions names in eval.c

It's not braindead. It's _as designed_ :-) The same for perl and python 
(which will automatically add .pm or .py/.pyc/.pyo).

Do you expect ruby to check every possible extension?

-- 
dave