From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2009-04-05T04:04:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Loading classes in order

El Sábado 04 Abril 2009, Tony Arcieri escribió:
> Merb's loader works somewhat similarly to what Inaki pasted, except it
> loops, retrying the failed files.  If it loops through the failed files and
> no new ones are loaded it gives up.

Imagining a very complex case it could occur that class_A defined in file_A 
depends on class_C defined in file_C, and class_C depends on class_B defined 
in file_B.

So the correct loading order would be:

require "file_B"
require "file_C"
require "file_A"

Loading in alphabetic order (A, B, C) would load just file_B. So file_A and 
file_C would require a new try. Trying again in alphabetic order (A, C) would 
load just file_C, and file_A would fail.
So a third attemp would load just file_A (succesfully now).

I wonder if could be a case in which this approach wouldn't work.


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Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>