From: Florian Frank <flori@...>
Date: 2005-08-13T09:11:11+09:00
Subject: Re: LibInject 0.1.0: Small Pieces Smooshed Together

Jim Weirich wrote:

>My personal style (in general) is to put all the requires at the top level
>at the beginning.  However in RubyGems we use the above idiom often to
>avoid requiring things that are not needed.
>
You can have both, if you do
  autload :OptionParser, 'optparse'
at the beginning. 'optparse' is only loaded, when the OptionParser
constant is accessed and doesn't exist.

It's also possible to do something like

module AllMyStuff
  module A
    autoload :MyClass, 'all_my_stuff/a/my_class'
  end
end

and

a = AllMyStuff::A::MyClass.new

for more complicated setups, because autoload is a method of Kernel and 
Module.

-- 
Florian Frank