From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-04-19T06:56:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Facets 0.6.3

Ryan Leavengood wrote:
> B. K. Oxley (binkley) wrote:
> 
>>Can you not teach require to translate the file names?  (I'm too new to
>>Ruby to know the answer to that.  I know I can do it in Perl.)
> 
> 
> Yes that is easy, but I think doing that definitely crosses the
> over-engineered barrier.
> 
> How about rename [].rb to brackets.rb? Other cases could be treated
> similarly (==.rb becomes equals.rb, <=>.rb becomes compare.rb, etc.)
> 
> For the other cases (foo?, foo!) I say just drop the punctuation in the
> filename.

Or CGI-encode the name, as is done with the ri yaml data file names.

James