From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-05-20T12:33:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby namespaces and require

On 5/19/06, Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org> wrote:
> There have been a few threads recently both here and on the Rails list
> where the problem of namespace collisions has come up.  It seems to my
> untutored eye that they've come about simply because the original
> authors didn't apply their namespacing universally.  From memory, an
> example is htmltools and ActionPack both defining an HTML::Tag class.
>
> A possible solution sprung to mind:  how does the following syntax look?
>
>    require 'foo', :into => 'Bar'
>    require 'qux', :into => 'Wibble::Spang'

Awful and unworkable. Remember that in Ruby, a filename does not
necessarily correspond to a created or loaded class. Furthermore, with
dynamic code generation, that would end up meaning nothing at all in
the end.

So, I would oppose this heartily.

-austin
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