From: bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Aug.01.02@...
Date: 2002-08-02T07:33:03+09:00
Subject: Style: where to require in libs?

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    When writing libraries for other programs to use
is it better to include any outside requirements 
within the Class definition or outside it? i.e. 

[1]
require "foo"

Class Bar


end 

or 

[2]
Class Bar
      require "foo"



end 

     If my understanding is correct, 2 is politer in that you
don't pollute the global namespace with the class defines in
foo. But I most often see [1] in existing ruby libraries. Is
there more to this than I understand?

- - Booker C. Bense 

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