From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2007-06-11T05:16:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Requiring more than one file?

Marc Heiler wrote:
> require does accept ony word, which should be the name that has
> to be required. Since duck typing is en vogue, is it a bad idea to
> have require use something like this here instead?
>
> require %w( pp English pathname fileutils abbrev pp digest/md5 yaml)
>
> The reason I write this is because I quite often see this:
>
> %w( pathname fileutils English abbrev pp digest/md5 yaml ).each { |file|
> require file }
>
> which some people like to do compared to the a little cumbersome:
>
> require 'pathname'
> require 'fileutils'
> require 'English'
> require 'abbrev'
>   
I don't understand why this is considered cumbersome. Certainly it's 
more readable than looping over an array, and it's not like this is 
something you have to type a lot, or read a lot.

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