From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2010-12-18T09:01:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Effects of require


On Dec 17, 2010, at 10:57 AM, tsuraan wrote:
> Shouldn't the DRbIdConv, DRbObject, and DRbUndumped just stay under
> the DRb module?  They're promoted to the global namespace at the
> bottom of drb/drb.rb, but why is this considered a good idea?  Are
> hygenic namespaces considered ugly in ruby?

I don't have any definitive answers to your questions, just a few observations:

Yes it is considered bad form for a library to pollute the global namespace.

But it isn't clear that the same rules should apply to Ruby core classes or the standard library.

And don't forget that the existing standard library has evolved over almost 10 years, what seems obvious now might have been considered needless concern then.

Gary Wright