From: Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
Date: 2011-06-18T04:25:36+09:00
Subject: Re: RFC - One word alias for require_relative

On 17 Ιούν, 21:17, Gary Wright <gwtm...@mac.com> 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__

This could become my new favourite.

"!" is used as a convention, to clarify that a method "modifies the
object"

"!" could be used for stand-alone functions (e.g. the "flat" Kernel
functions which do not operate strictly on an object) to clarify (by
convention) "you should know what you do, possible risks" or simply
"alternate implementation".

And with an additional space, headers look clean, too:

require! "lib/baselib"
require  "sinatra"

Yes, this could be the "winner".

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