From: Johan Holmberg <holmberg@...>
Date: 2001-12-08T22:45:55+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27928] Re: "load" without looking in $LOAD_PATH ?


On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, David Alan Black wrote:
>
> On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Johan Holmberg wrote:
>
> > But couldn't I change $LOAD_PATH, and set it to just "." before
> > calling "load" ???
>
> You can add "." to the front of $LOAD_PATH:
>
>   $LOAD_PATH.unshift(".")
>
> so that the cwd will be searched first.
>

Yes, but that would just give another twist of undesired behaviour:

    - if the local file was missing, I could still "accidentally"
      get a file from somewhere else in the $LOAD_PATH

    - the change would affect further require/load at other places
      in other modules. Way to *global*.


I want the different search-behaviour of "load" to be applied
locally, just for one particular call.

/Johan Holmberg