From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2005-04-22T01:59:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Facets 0.6.3

Austin Ziegler wrote:
> It won't cause worse problems, but it won't help with the bane of
> all computer scientists.
>
> Legacy systems.

All too True.

> A DBFS can help with this, certainly, but it won't solve it.

One day....

> I meant to send a reply to this thread long before that said
> essentially what I said above, PLUS:
>
> * I can't find the message reference right now, but I seem to recall
>   that Matz indicated that "require 'foo/bar'" requires the
>   *resource* "foo/bar", similar to the way that in Perl "using
>   Foo::Bar;" uses that resource. Thus, it might be worth an RCR to
>   do some limited translation on certain characters so that they are
>   safe for all operating systems. Then, you could do require
>   'facets/nil?' and it would load the resource "facets/nil%3f".
>
> This would place a burden on the developer to make sure that the
> file is saved as nil%3f.rb, but it would work.

That's interesting...very interesting. I wonder what Matz would think.

T.