From: serialhex <serialhex@...>
Date: 2011-05-28T08:05:44+09:00
Subject: Re: require in 1.9.2 and 1.9.1

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On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Steve Klabnik <steve@steveklabnik.com>wrote:

> I wrote a gem that backports require_relative (which is the correct way to
> do it!) to Ruby 1.8: https://github.com/steveklabnik/require_relative
>
> Having "." in the $: is a security concern. And modifying $: is bad
> practice, in general. That's Rubygems' job.
>

spiffy!!!  thanks steve!
and yeah, don't use my metaprogramming cheat, steve's is MUCH better!  (and
much less copy-paste-error prone :D )
hex


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> > Other than the fact Linux has a cool name, could someone explain why I
> > should use Linux over BSD?
>
> No.  That's it.  The cool name, that is.  We worked very hard on
> creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it
> certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able
> to say "OS/2? Hah.  I've got Linux.  What a cool name".  386BSD made the
> mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the
> name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too
> technical.
	-- Linus Torvalds' follow-up to a question about Linux

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