From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-12-14T16:22:03+09:00
Subject: Re: require circularity?

From: "Josh Huber" <huber@alum.wpi.edu>


> "Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> Maybe storing some kind of hash of require'd files could prevent this?


This is already the case (I believe it's an array, though).  The problem is
that obviously the "memory" of require'd files doesn't store them all as
absolute paths.  Maybe there's a reason for this?

Gavin