From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-10-09T00:40:18+09:00
Subject: Re: odd edge case with require

Hi --

On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Patrick May wrote:

> $ 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.

Try it with load instead of require :-)  (infinite loop)

I don't find the above strange.  It only require's once, but
the puts statement gets encountered twice.  That corresponds
to the behavior: no infinite loop, two lines of output.


David

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