From: Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
Date: 2011-06-21T01:20:26+09:00
Subject: Re: RFC - One word alias for require_relative

On 11 Ιούν, 20:35, Ilias Lazaridis <il...@lazaridis.com> wrote:
> This is a simple Request for Comments.
>
> Scenario:
>
> require_relative 'lib/alter'
> require 'alibrary'
>
> Some project manager complains about "require_relative", and asks you
> to find a one-word alias.
>
> Which name would you select and for what reasons?
>
> Requirements
> must:
> * one word
>
> optional:
> * ideally a 7 letter word

Solutions:
require! 'lib/alter' # 2011-06-17 by Gary Wright
rr       'lib/alter' # 2011-06-19 by Ted Han
involve  'lib/alter' # 2011-06-16 by Sam Duncan
locally  'lib/alter' # 2011-06-11 by Rob Biedenharn
uniload  'lib/alter' # my
request  'lib/alter' # my
include  'lib/alter' # my
relative 'lib/alter' # my

-

#old
require_relative 'lib/baselib'
require 'sinatra"'
#new
require! 'lib/baselib"'
require  'sinatra'

-

Applying the change:
module Kernel
  alias require! require_relative
end

-

I like the word "involve" more, but as "require!" reminds clearly the
original "require", it's the first choice.

2nd choice would be to use "rr" and "r" (similar to "p" for "puts")

.

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