From: David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>
Date: 2004-06-12T15:13:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Switch to .ruby extension?

David Garamond wrote:
>> 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?

Forgot to add. I think .rbw is created specifically for Ruby scripts 
that are to be called directly by the user (e.g. clicked from the 
Explorer window). You are not supposed to name Ruby library files (that 
are to be require-d from other scripts) as .rbw.

-- 
dave