From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-05-03T14:52:26+09:00
Subject: Re: require and case

In article <C1126400B227D411AC1200A00CC456B5ACCFD7@emailserver.massive.com.au>,
Martin Stannard  <martin@massive.com.au> wrote:
>
>>ruby -v
>ruby 1.6.5 (2001-09-19) [i586-mswin32]
>
>=======================
>require 'Date'
>require 'date'
>
>
>puts Date.new(2002, 4, 28)
>=========================
>
>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?
>

Well, you wouldn't have had an issue on Unix, but because the Windows 
filesystem only pretends to be case-sensitive and then really isn't this 
is what happens.  Maybe there should be a warning, but it should only be 
enabled on Windows...  Don't need or want it on the Unices.

Phil