From: Stefan Rusterholz <apeiros@...>
Date: 2007-07-02T01:42:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Given a class, what is the 'require' line?

Alex Young wrote:
> Stefan Rusterholz wrote:
>>> builtin way of doing it.
>> unconventional libs requiring the file following the convention to keep 
>> backwards-compatibility (e.g. strscan.rb just containing a line 'require 
>> "stringscanner.rb"').
> 
> In general, I agree, and this precise problem has annoyed the hell out
> of me in the past.  However, you also need to take into account those
> libraries that provide more than one class or namespace, or those that
> primarily modify core classes.  It's not insurmountable, by any means.

I keep everything that modifies core classes under a dir called "ruby", 
so I do e.g.
require 'ruby/array/sum' (I can also require 'ruby/array', which will 
require all sub-files)
I'm still missing a good strategy for singleton methods, though.
Namespaces are mapped to directories in my libs. Stdlib does for a lot 
of that the same, consider all the Net::* stuff, it maps to net/*

Regards
Stefan

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