From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-01-18T11:54:32+09:00
Subject: Re: In which order are files looked for when loaded/requierd - and what's the order of suffixes?

Hi,

At Sun, 18 Jan 2004 02:45:03 +0900,
Stephan K�mper wrote:
> how can I tell in which order the directories are searched for the file 
> in question? And what's the order fo suffixes to the file ( .rb, .so, ...)?

Directories in $:, and suffixes are in order "rb",
Config::CONFIG["DLEXT"] and Config::CONFIG["DLEXT2"] if
available.   Config::CONFIG is defined in rbconfig.rb.

> Is the directory order the order of the entries in $: (or $LOAD_PATH 
> which I tend to prefer after requiring 'English')?

Yes.

> Hmm, probably not, since '.' is the last entry in the current $: (which 
> I didn't change)

What do you mean?

-- 
Nobu Nakada