From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2008-08-17T11:40:32+09:00
Subject: Re: More autoload...



On Aug 16, 4:28 pm, David Masover <ni...@slaphack.com> wrote:
> That sucks.
>
> Is there any way to know for certain when a file is loaded, when it's autoload
> that's doing it, short of modifying the file? (I'm specifically wanting to be
> _notified_, so that I can prepare sub-constants to be autoloaded as well --
> that is, when Foo is loaded, I want to automatically run Foo.autoload :Bar.)
>
> Is there any way to force autoload to use a different mechanism?
>
> Is there any way, in Ruby, to emulate autoload with actual feature parity?
>
> Or am I really going to have to create a temporary file for each and every
> source file I might possibly ever want to use?

The things to do is of course to fix the Ruby source to A) use a
callback for autoload and B) to use the normal Kernel.require call.
Then submit a patch and pray the higher ups care enough to check it
in.

Now the question is are you a C coder ;)

T.