From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-08-12T20:03:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Dear RubyGems: Perhaps a better way to override require...

On Friday 12 August 2005 05:41 am, Trans wrote:
> > If unique names aren't used, the result is an infinite loop.
>
> That's what I expected too. But when I tried, it didn't work so well.
> My aliased version was working fine until I installed RubyGems.
> Appaerently it was running my version twice. Thus escaping twice, "[]"
> -> "%5B%5D" -> "%255B%255D". Perhaps this is b/c RubyGems uses a rescue
> clause and retries and so ends up passing the name to my routine again.
> Not sure.

Were you modifying the string in-place?  If so, try it without destructively 
modifying the string and either solution should work then.

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