From: "Bartosz DziewoƄski" Date: 2012-06-13T23:40:08+09:00 Subject: Re: require_relative? why didn't we "relative do" What for? This is needlessly munging a global variable. Also, if one of the required scripts also happen to require something, it will become a relative require, too. (Unless you add some magical guard code for this, and then we're on a slippery slope.) -- Matma Rex