From: Marko Schulz <in6x059@...>
Date: 2002-05-07T19:19:50+09:00
Subject: Re: require and case

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 12:38:51PM +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:
> Marko Schulz <in6x059@public.uni-hamburg.de> writes:
> 
> > > that rb_require should normalize all paths before executing, and
> > > should store those normalized paths in $".
> > 
> > That will likely break scripts that fiddle around with $:. So it
> > probably is unwise to change it in a minor release.
> 
> Surely the only way it could break a script is that if that script
> currently manipulates $: in order deliberately to require the same
> file twice. Making names canonical before storing them in $" _removes_
> the impact of changing $:, doesn't it?

Eh, sorry. I meant scripts that change $" not $:.

Yes, I never used it to require a file twice.  I also don't know of
other useful ways for manipulating $", but people use Ruby in ways I
could never imagine.

-- 
marko schulz