From: Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
Date: 2011-06-24T06:59:49+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

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Solutions:
require  'lib/alter' # 2011-06-11 by Intransition (extend
functionality)
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

-

As I realized that "require_relative" does *not* load from the global
library paths, merging "require" and "require_relative" seems the way
to go.

This was suggested already somehow here: 2011-06-11 by Intransition

-

Combined with the suggested  term "require!", and extending the
functionality even more, the result would be this one:

module Kernel
  def require!(*libs)

    libs.each do |lib|
      begin
        require_relative(lib)
      rescue LoadError
        require lib
      end
    end

  end
end

require! 'json', 'yaml', 'sinatra'

-

This version of "require" is more powerful, and so it would "deserve"
the "!".

require/require_relative remain untouched (full backwards
compatibility)

#original
require_relative 'lib/baselib'
require 'sinatra"'

#new
require! 'lib/baselib', 'sinatra'

-

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

.

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