From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2006-02-05T12:01:47+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.
> 
> This still leaves the question of why ruby-doc.org documents the Date
> class as being in the Core API.

Because I run rdoc over the base set of lib files.

If there is a better way to do this, I would be happy to change.

(What I would prefer is a single set of API files that do not require 
one to know whether something is 'core' or 'std-lib'.  )


James
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James Britt

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