From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-10-09T00:19:29+09:00
Subject: Re: odd edge case with require

From: "Patrick May" <patrick-may@monmouth.com>


> $ cat test.rb
>     require 'test.rb'
>     puts "Should this only be outputted once?"
>
>     $ ruby test.rb
>     Should this only be outputted once?
>     Should this only be outputted once?
>
>     $ ruby -v
>     ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [i586-mswin32]
>
> The above behaviour seems a bit strange to me.
>
> ~ Patrick May

Fair enough, but it doesn't seem strange to me.  I can't explain why not, but
perhaps there can be no self-consistent system that handles this bounday case.
Not of great import, anyway.

Gavin