From: Christopher Sawtell <csawtell@...>
Date: 2001-09-25T15:18:58+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21659] Re: What's the "Data" class?  Don't we need a	namespace for standard classes?

On 23 Sep 2001 11:42:28 +0900, Ryo Furue wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I spent a hard time to debug my code, which boils down to something
> like this:
> 
>       class Data
>          def hello

[ ... ]

> But
>       require "Std"
>      f = Std.File.open(....) # OK
> 
> Or
>      include Std
>       f = File.open(....)  #OK
> 
> What do you think?


Although I am very new to Ruby I would wholeheartedly support this
change.
At first sight anyway it seems a very sensible thing to do.