From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-03-25T02:54:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's module search path

In article <200403241117.11441@vadim.nasardinov>,
Vadim Nasardinov  <vadimn@redhat.com> wrote:
>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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>..
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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
>

$: is aliased to $LOAD_PATH

Phil