From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2004-11-21T16:57:55+09:00
Subject: Re: several questions on using gems

On Sunday 21 November 2004 12:30 am, David Garamond wrote:
> well, can't the rubygem's Kernel#require hack detect that when the
> second (and third, ...) arguments are specified, then it's a gem
> require, not a file require?

It's not a technical problem preventing the require hack from detecting it, 
but a logical one.  require and require_gem are two logically different 
operations and therefore should have different names.  

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