From: Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery@...>
Date: 2003-04-18T16:38:29+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question

On Friday 18 of April 2003 09:31, Kent Dahl wrote:
> Emmanuel Touzery wrote:
> >         But it fails, apparently because the parameter for require must
> > be CONSTANT:
> >
> > test.rb:4:in `require': ./myplugins/poptv.rb:1: class/module name must be
> > CONSTANT (SyntaxError)
> >         from test.rb:4
> >         from test.rb:1:in `each'
> >         from test.rb:1
> >
> > require ('myplugins/' + plugin).freeze does the same.
> >
> > any idea? shoud I use something else than 'require'? some form of eval?
>
> Check out line 1 in poptv.rb.
>
> My bet is that you have started a class or module name with a lowercase
> character. It must be a constant, which means it must begin with an
> uppercase character.
>
> You don't have any problem with require, it just pops up in the
> backtrace because it was what prompted the offending file to be parsed.

oh, yes, thank you...
i was mislead because i was a bit afraid that require would only accept 
constant parameters even before i tried, so when i saw that, i quickly jumped 
to conclusions...

thank you again :O)

emmanuel
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