From: "Christoffer Lernö" <lerno@...>
Date: 2008-07-08T16:26:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Something like import/package in java?

On 2 Jul 2008, at 20:56, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:

> Christoffer Lernö 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.

Static dependency tracking? Yes perhaps sort of that. It doesn't have  
to be perfect, just work in most cases. But I am also a simpler way to  
include a file when organizing files in a file hierarchy (stuff like  
require '../somepath/somefile' is rather unclear and will fail if the  
file is run from the wrong directory).

/C