From: "Matthew K. Williams" <matt@...>
Date: 2011-06-18T03:52:44+09:00
Subject: Re: RFC - One word alias for require_relative

On Sat, 18 Jun 2011, Chad Perrin wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 03:24:48AM +0900, Gary Wright wrote:
>> On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:21 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 03:17:50AM +0900, Gary Wright wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I can't believe I'm adding to this conversation...
>>>>
>>>> Ruby already has an idiom for naming two related methods so how about:
>>>>
>>>> require "a/b"        # the usual
>>>> require! "a/b"       # require relative to __FILE__
>>>
>>> I had no idea about "require!".  Thanks for mentioning it.
>>
>> It doesn't exist, I was just suggesting it as a possibility...
>
> Damn.  Okay, never mind.
>
> Of course, I'll just be happy with require_relative, anyway.  It seems
> quite descriptive of its functionality, and succinct enough for my
> purposes.

Exactly.  While I'm an old unix hack, I really like the descriptiveness of 
this method.  I know *exactly* what it's doing, without having to learn 
some new obscure word.

Matt