From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-01-24T02:40:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9772] Re: require loop

matz@zetabits.com (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

> Hi,
> 
> In message "[ruby-talk:9730] require loop"
>     on 01/01/23, Ted Meng <ted_meng@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> |I thought "require" would handle infinite loop
> |but it does not (at least for 1.6.2), any idea?
> 
> Currently, it does not.  Rather it detect loop explicitly.
> Mostly to accomplish thread awareness of `load'.

I must be particularly dumb today. Why does this need to be caught at
all. Unless $" is not getting updated, won't the loop be broken the
second time you try to load the same file?


Dave