From: Marko Schulz <in6x059@...>
Date: 2003-08-05T23:35:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Log4r and Ruby 1.8.0 in Singleton problems

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:09:19PM +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:
> ts wrote:
> >
> >  require '/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/singleton.rb'
> >
> >is different (it think that it's another module) 
> >
> >  require 'singleton' # which is in repository.rb
> >
> 
> I have never understood this: why doesn't Ruby store the cannonical 
> (fully expanded) path name; that would eliminate this kind of problem.

I always thought this isn't done, so the programmer isn't deluded a
false sense of security: There isn't always _the_ cannonical
path. Think of filesystems that ignore the case in filenames. (Not to
mention (symbolic and hard) links or alias names (single~1.rb)

-- 
marko schulz