From: Mark Sargent <coolboarderguy@...>
Date: 2006-06-28T11:43:25+09:00
Subject: Why Include and Require?

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HI All,

with our volunteer teacher absent last night, our class was left to ponder
things for ourselves. We were looking at a ruby equivalent for cp and came
upon something that we all didn't understand. In the below code, small as it
may be,

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby

require 'fileutils'
include FileUtils::Verbose
cp("methround.rb", "newmethround.rb")


we wondered why we required to use require and include before the code would
work. Naturally, if we removed the, "::Verbose" it still worked. Why require
and then include fileutils? Cheers.

Mark Sargent.

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