From: Christian Boos <cboos@...>
Date: 2001-12-21T23:29:08+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29224] Re: Constant loss of memory with Kernel::load in a loop

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobu.nokada@softhome.net [mailto:nobu.nokada@softhome.net]
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 3:05 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: [ruby-talk:29220] Re: Constant loss of memory with Kernel::load
> in a loop
> 
> > > I made the assumption that the distinction between those two cases
> > could also match the one already existing between load(f) and 
> load(f,true)
> > (the load under an anonymous module).
> 
> but don't guess the assumption is true.
> 

If you don't like merging the two concepts, fine. We just
need another way to specify we are in the second case.
A 'load_tmp' function for example.

> 
> It doesn't pass the following test (modified [ruby-talk:29203]).
> 
>   i = 0
>   loop {
>     fn = format("/tmp/%d.rb", i += 1)
>     open(fn, "w") {}
>#     load fn
	 load fn, true  # or, at your option: load_tmp fn
>     File.unlink fn
>   }
> 

Works.

-- Christian