From: Matthew Harris <shugotenshi@...>
Date: 2006-07-25T00:52:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Autoloading objects — Ruby equivalent for PHP5 "__autoload

You would probably want to use some metaprogramming to define
const_missing recursively on currently defined constants, and then
it's pretty much the same as PHP's __autoload().

On 7/24/06, Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org> wrote:
> Alex Young wrote:
> <snip>
> > def Object.const_missing(name)
> >   load name.to_lower + ".rb"
> > end
> >
> > That's got a few rough edges, though, to put it mildly...
> >
> I mean, besides the fact that it won't work, unlike Mat's.  Should have
> tested that one...
>
> --
> Alex
>
>


-- 
Matt