On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Luke Kanies <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> So, I'm trying to fix the infamous "functions in environments" problem
> (#1175), and we've got all of the infrastructure in place to fix it except
> one piece:  We currently have no way to associate a loaded file with a given
> environment.
>
> That is, if you say 'load("foo")', and a function is found, we need some way
> to know which environment the function was found in.
>
> In investigating this, I found that the current autoloading doesn't actually
> support environments other than the default.  My first thought was to
> support an 'environment' option to the main loading commands, but as I
> considered this I wondered whether it might make more sense to refactor
> autoloading, given how much other rubyists seem to hate it.
>
> I don't have a specific idea of how I'd refactor it, mostly because I don't
> really know the root of why rubyists hate it so much, other than that it's
> different.

Which bit do they hate?

I take it you mean "the current autoloading (of functions and plugins)" ?


> Barring any comments, I'll just update the interface methods to support
> specifying an environment.
>
> Any comments from the opinionated?

This may not be related... but will this have any effect upon either:

* allowing clients to specify multiple environments
* being able to append to the existing modulepath via a function in a manifest.

(I have a whole bunch of things turning around inside my head around
this area at the moment I was hoping to get a post out about this
week)



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