From: Cameron McBride <cameron@...>
Date: 2002-05-04T13:32:30+09:00
Subject: Re: require and case

> Say you created a new lib (new.rb) and sucked it in with a require:
> require 'new'
> 
> But what you forgot is that yesterday, you created another lib that did
> something different, but you happened to name it 'New.rb' and did:
> require 'New'
> 
> If I am right, this will work nicely on my unix box -- but will choke a
> non-case sensitive OS.  This is where the warning would be nice.

To bounce a question off myself...

In the example above, since you are relying on the search path for
loading, how would it work?  Basically, it would load the first one in
the search path that it finds -- right? 

On a case-sensitive machine -- there would be no conflict and no
problem: both modules loaded.  On the case-insensitive machine, one of
them would be loaded twice, with which one being dependant on the order 
of the search path.

That seems to be what irb is telling me (for a linux simulation of two
libs having the same name).

Cameron