From: Dat Nguyen <thucdat@...>
Date: 2000-03-24T09:54:02-05:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:02130] Re: Question the sequence in $:

It's the order your PATH is arranged. Rearrange your PATH, you get a new 
result according to the new arrangement.
The 'each' iterator picks up the items in '$:' according to their position 
in '$:'.

Dat

>From: Clemens Hintze <c.hintze@gmx.net>
>Reply-To: ruby-talk@netlab.co.jp
>To: ruby-talk@netlab.co.jp (ruby-talk ML)
>Subject: [ruby-talk:02129] Question the sequence in $:
>Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:14:44 +0100 (CET)
>
>Hi,
>
>I have found the following:
>
>$ ruby -v
>ruby 1.5.3 (2000-03-15) [i586-linux]
>
>$ ruby -e '$:.each{|p| p p}'
>"/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.5/i586-linux"
>"/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.5"
>"/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby"
>"/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.5/i586-linux"
>"/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.5"
>"."
>
>As you can see the local directory "." is at the end of the load
>path. That means, that my current directory is the last one to be
>searched for libs.
>
>Is this intended?
>
>I would mean the "." should be the *first* entry within the load
>path. My local libs should overwrite site and system ones! If not, I
>could not e.g. copy a system lib and patch it.
>
>I think everywhere the sequence should be:
>
>    local -> site -> system
>
>Other opinions?
>
>And while thinking about this, I have another proposal. How about to
>include the directory from where the program was started into the load
>path too? That would enable me to put my application with its support
>libs into an own subdirectory and after starting, the load path would
>already contain this directory too! So its support libs could easily
>be required too. But this should only happen, of course, if $0 is not
>'-' or '-e'.
>
>Only, I am not sure about the sequence. Should such an application
>directory comes before or after "."? Ah ... before I forget, platform
>dependend directories within application dir should also be
>considered.
>
>\cle
>
>--
>Clemens Hintze  mailto: c.hintze@gmx.net

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