+1
In most cases a circular require is not what you want
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-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Grieve <agri...@google.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:12:42
To: <callback-dev@incubator.apache.org>
Reply-To: callback-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Circular require()s
Our module system currently allows cycles. However, the result of a cycle
is often not what you'd want. What we do when defining modules is:
module.exports = {};
factory(module) // either adds properties to or clobbers module.exports
return module.exports;
So, cycles in require()s will work only when:
a) exports is extended instead of clobbered, and
b) the result of the require is not used at the modules scope.
I think these restrictions are too hard to get right, and that we should
just make require cycles an error. Objections?
Andrew
