From: Andrew Walrond <andrew@...>
Date: 2005-04-02T07:57:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Kernel.load() behaviour

On Friday 01 April 2005 23:49, Saynatkari wrote:
> Con fecha 1/4/2005, "Brian Mitchell" <binary42@gmail.com> escribi�:
> >
> >One more idea that lets one use load and allows anonymous modules:
> >
> >glibc.rb:
> >class Glibc
> >end
> >
> >some_file.rb:
> >module Packages
> >end
> >
> >class Package
> >  def self.inherited(sub)
> >    Packages.const_set(sub.name.split("::").last, sub)
> >  end
> >end
> >
> >load 'glibc.rb', true
> >
> ># Packages.constants == ["Glibc"]
>
> This will still pollute the namespace, though, at
> the initial loading. That seemed to be Andrew's
> concern.

Not with
 load 'glibc.rb',true
surely?

On a related note, if glibc.rb does require(filename) or load(filename,false), 
this second level load breaks through and will pollute the top level global 
namespace. I suppose this is the obvious, though unwanted behavior.

Andrew