From: Vadim Nasardinov <vadimn@...>
Date: 2004-03-25T01:12:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's module search path

On Tuesday 23 March 2004 23:50, Mehr, Assaph (Assaph) wrote:
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> def which(libname)
>   $:.each { |d|
>     f = File.join(d, libname)
>     p f if File.exists? f
>     f += ".rb"
>     p f if File.exists? f
>   }
>   nil
> end

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> > From the output, I'm guessing $" is the list of requires that have
> > been executed so far?
> 
> Correct. Run your own code on 'english' :-)


$" is aliased to $LOADED_FEATURES, but the $: variable does not seem
to have an 'English' alias:
http://www.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ruby/lib/English.rb?rev=1.4

What's up with that?