From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2011-06-24T04:14:31+09:00
Subject: Re: RFC - One word alias for require_relative

On Thursday, June 23, 2011 02:07:47 PM David Masover wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 10:25:37 PM Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
> > Possibly it would be easier to add behaviour of "require":
> > 
> > require "./filename" #=> loads relative to $Dir.pwd (process working
> > directory)
> > 
> > require ":/filename" #=> loads relative to the file-directory
> > 
> > Possibly there's somewhere a standard for this.

Reading back, I think my code sample doesn't quite follow your suggestion:

>   module Kernel
>     def require_with_colon path
>       if path =~ /^:(.*)/

Replace that line with

        if path =~ /^:\/(.*)/

>         require_relative $1
>       else
>         require_without_colon path
>       end
>     end
>     alias require_without_colon require
>     alias require require_with_colon
>   end


That's better, actually, as it means we now only break requiring Ruby files 
which are in some subdirectory of a directory called ':' which is in the load 
path, which is sufficiently outlandish that I don't think it's a credible 
objection anymore. After all, ':' is already the load path separator anyway.