From: Lothar Scholz Date: 2006-07-01T13:59:24+09:00 Subject: Re: can require 'date' be used in irb Hello Logan, LC> On Jun 30, 2006, at 9:01 PM, dave rose wrote: LC> (What's happening is that date has already been required and added to LC> $LOADED_FEATURES. But since you use the _full_ path to date it You are right, but i hope that somebody changes this in the future. Storing relative file paths should be forbidden. It's not that difficult in this case but it gets a real problem if it is relative to "." and some library code changes the current working directory. It is also a pure horror for us tool writers. -- Best regards, emailto: scholz at scriptolutions dot com Lothar Scholz http://www.ruby-ide.com CTO Scriptolutions Ruby, PHP, Python IDE 's