From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-07-03T03:56:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Something like import/package in java?

Christoffer Lern旦 wrote:
> For me it is not so much a namespace-issue. It is rather dependency and 
> include issue. The most frequent use of java imports for me is actually 
> as an indicator of dependencies as I only in very special circumstances 
> would use the fully qualified name of a class.

I think what you're looking for is a static dependency tracking 
mechanism in Ruby, a dynamic language. There is not really any simple 
way to get such dependency tracking, and certainly nothing built into 
Ruby itself. And I don't think this is particularly unusual among 
dynamic languages.

- Charlie