From: Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
Date: 2011-06-16T04:55:31+09:00
Subject: Re: RFC - One word alias for require_relative

On 15 Ιούν, 22:26, Florian Gilcher <f...@andersground.net> wrote:
> On Jun 15, 2011, at 9:10 PM, Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
>
> > require_relative 'lib/alter'
> > require './lib/alter'
>
> > To my understanding, both should do the same thing.
>
> > Is this right?
>
> No, the first is relative to the file, the second is relative to "Dir.pwd", the process working directory.

I understand.

Thus the first works for the main file, *and* for included files which
can use again require_relative.

The second works only for the main file (usually executed from it's
location).

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So it looks I can't drop require_relative.

And so I still need a shorter name.

.

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