From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-04-24T01:28:42+09:00
Subject: Re: recursive require warning...

Hi,

At Sat, 20 Apr 2002 04:49:45 +0900,
Phil Tomson wrote:
> >> >> Is it possible that we could have some sort of warning message when this 
> >> >> happens, something like: "Warning: recursive require slave.rb line 3"
> >> >
> >> >It's easy, but really desirable in common?
> >> 
> >> It would have made it much easier to find the problem on Windows in this 
> >> case.  I didn't realize that the file was requireing itself (slave.rb) 
> >> instead of the Slave.rb in the other directory.
> >
> >Sometimes recursive require is used intently.  Actually, once
> >it was prohibited, complained as expected.
> 
> I'm not saying that we should restrict it but that it could be a warning 
> that is issued if you've got certain warnings turned on.

I'm just afraid it's noisy in such case, but it may not be a problem.

-- 
Nobu Nakada