From: Matthew Desmarais <desmarm@...>
Date: 2006-02-05T10:28:46+09:00
Subject: Re: built-in vs. standard library

Mark Volkmann wrote:
> On 2/4/06, Matthew Desmarais <desmarm@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> P.S.  I just realized that you'll get a good idea of what (aside from
>> core) is in your ruby by evaluating $".  That's the array that holds the
>> list of files that have been require'd.
>>     
>
> Good suggestion!  I tried that and I see that "rubygems.rb" is being
> loaded. I just don't know why that is happening. Is that something
> that automatically happens when you are using the latest version of
> the Windows One Click Installer?  As was suggested earlier,
> rubygems.rb ends up requiring parsedate.rb.
>   
Very odd.  I noticed that earlier in the thread that you said that you 
didn't have a RUBYOPTS environment variable set.  The environment 
variable that will get you is actually RUBYOPT.  Is it possible that you 
have this one set?  If not then you can color me puzzled.
> This still leaves the question of why ruby-doc.org documents the Date
> class as being in the Core API.
>   
Oh, that?  I have no idea. ;-)

It probably shouldn't be though, eh?