From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2005-08-16T13:12:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Seven lone Time methods

Hi,

At Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:54:05 +0900,
Austin Ziegler wrote in [ruby-talk:152198]:
> > > Time is a core class of Ruby's. So why do we have to
> > >
> > >   require 'time'
> > >
> > > in order to gain these seven methods?
> > >
> > >    httpdate, iso8601, parse, rfc2822, rfc822, xmlschema, zone_offset
> > >
> > > What aren't they already there? (especailly #parse)
> > 
> > I guess they are easier in ruby than C.
> 
> Fair enough, but is there no way to make these available by default,
> just the same way that Time is?

One idea I have is extending autoload.

A patch is <http://www.rubyist.net/~nobu/ruby/autoload_method.diff>

-- 
Nobu Nakada