From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2005-04-20T00:44:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Facets 0.6.3


James Britt wrote:
> If one is already calling
>    require 'facets'
>
> could not Facets munge 'require' so that it does a CGI.unescape
behind
> the scenes, so one could just call
>
> require '!!'

Actaully two things here:

 1) Since RubyGems already munges #require, I'm not so keen on adding a
second munge layer. Do you think Matz would find CGI encoding suitable
for a general RCR on require?

 2)  But more importantly, one does not require 'facets' b/c Facets is
an _atomic library_, which means that everything is broken down into
fine grain peices. So instead one would do something like

  require 'facet/string/singularize'

Of course, there are premade groupings one can use too, but there is no
one particular file that is always required.


> > BTW, why do the ri yaml files all end in '-i' ?
>
> There are class files and instance files.

Yep, that makes sense.

Thanks,
T.