From: Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov <listbox@...>
Date: 2006-06-16T23:05:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Absolute paths in $"


On 16-jun-2006, at 4:42, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: Absolute paths in $""
>     on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:17:19 +0900, transfire@gmail.com writes:
>
> |Any chance Ruby 1.8.5 will have absolute paths in $" instead of
> |relative ones? I know that's planned for 2.0 but I sure could use it
> |now.
>
> I'm afraid it's too big change for 1.8 which is under stable mode.
> Any opinion?

I would welcome it, for one. Right now you have to expand_path  
everything manually and
in Rails it becomes very difficult to follow all the ../../../ properly.
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