From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2004-02-12T22:16:33+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary: 22688-22826

Quoteing matz@ruby-lang.org, on Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 08:36:03AM +0900:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: ruby-dev summary: 22688-22826"
>     on 04/02/12, Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> writes:
> 
> |> Matz disagree to make the require method load libraries
> |> with relative path, but he allowed other method to do it.
> |> Some details are not determined yet:
> |> 
> |>   * name
> |>   * handling of symbolic link
> |>
> |> In addition, Tanaka made an advice to record the full path
> |> in $:. Matz agreed and promised to implement it when
> |> he has a time to do.
> |
> |For the record, I really like both of these ideas; they would completely
> |eliminate the use I have for requirelocal/loadlocal in RubyTreasures.
> 
> Any name suggestion?

Something really obvious, that describes what it does:

   #require_relative()

Sam