From: Martin Stannard <martin@...>
Date: 2002-05-02T10:24:26+09:00
Subject: require and case


>ruby -v
ruby 1.6.5 (2001-09-19) [i586-mswin32]

=======================
require 'Date'
require 'date'


puts Date.new(2002, 4, 28)
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F:\fish\projects\test>e:\rubywin32\bin\ruby
F:\fish\projects\test\datetest.rb
e:/rubywin32/lib/ruby/1.6/date.rb:8: warning: already initialized constant
IDENT
e:/rubywin32/lib/ruby/1.6/date.rb:11: warning: already initialized constant
MONTHNAMES
e:/rubywin32/lib/ruby/1.6/date.rb:13: warning: already initialized constant
DAYNAMES
e:/rubywin32/lib/ruby/1.6/date.rb:15: warning: already initialized constant
ITALY
e:/rubywin32/lib/ruby/1.6/date.rb:16: warning: already initialized constant
ENGLAND
e:/rubywin32/lib/ruby/1.6/date.rb:17: warning: already initialized constant
JULIAN
e:/rubywin32/lib/ruby/1.6/date.rb:18: warning: already initialized constant
GREGORIAN
e:/rubywin32/lib/ruby/1.6/Date.rb:148:in `new3': invalid date
(ArgumentError)
	from e:/rubywin32/lib/ruby/1.6/date.rb:150:in `new3'
	from F:\fish\projects\test\datetest.rb:5



It took me a while to track this down as the 2 requires were in different
files. 

Should require be case insensitive or should it give a warning if the module
it's trying to load has different case to that specified?

regards,

Martin