From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2005-08-12T05:48:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Dear RubyGems: Perhaps a better way to override require...

On 8/11/05, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Chad,
> 
> I have a library that allows one to require individual methods by name.
> Unfortuantely some file systems have punctuation limitations on file
> names, so I need to "escape" the names and then override Kernel#require
> to take that into account. I did it the tradiional way using alias, but
> for that caused conflicts with RubyGems, which does the same thing. In
> figuring out what to do about it I hit on the above solution.
> 
> I simply thought you might like to know about this, since it seems to
> be a more robust solution. Also, I just wanted to be sure I didn't
> overlook something, i.e. if anyone else sees a problem this way of
> doing it.
> 
>

Ahh, I get it.  The point (that I missed) wasn't the actual
implementation of require
but the fact that you were overriding it using a mixin instead of an
alias.  Seems reasonable.  I don't see any obvious problems either,
but I'd let the question linger here....anyone else?

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