From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-12-14T13:34:17+09:00
Subject: Re: require circularity?

From: "Kent Dahl" <kentda@stud.ntnu.no>


>
> 'require' will only load in the file if it hasn't already been loaded.
>
> However, I think there was some thread a while back on a few
> pathological cases where 'require' didn't save the day. One was the case
> of reaching the same .rb file from different paths (i.e. require
> 'somename' versus require '/usr/lib/ruby/somename').
> [...]

My test (ruby 1.6.5 (2001-09-19) [i386-cygwin]  -- I really must upgrade)
indicates that require is tricked by relative v. absolute path.  I consider
this quite a serious bug, not just a pathological case.

Gavin