From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...17n.org>
Date: 2004-02-12T13:50:54+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary: 22688-22826

In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402111759110.25224-100000@fattire.ngdc.noaa.gov>,
  "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@fattire.ngdc.noaa.gov> writes:

> * link
>
>   as in ld.  i say this because it would be used primarily with
>   packages/libraires trying to 'link' to dependancies...
>
>   the sematics of link would be
>
>     - first try relative
>     - then try $:

I can't imagine a situation that needs relative path and $: in single
method because I know a file which pointed by the relative path is
exist or not when I write link '...'.  If the file exists, $: is never
used.  If not, 'require' can be used instead.

> * relative 
>
>   a keyword/method to transform a path into a relative one

The relative keyword needs language change.  It's too drastic to this issue.

I feel the relative method is too tricky.

> * include

It is already used as Module#include.
-- 
Tanaka Akira