Issue #1030 has been updated by Rados¥Ê£Âw Bu¥Ê£Ât.
I have another argument:
$ ~/opt/bin/ruby1.9-trunk -e 'p $".reject {|p| File.exist?(p) }'
I'm pretty sure that most programmers expect that all files from $" should exists (if they didn't manually modify $" variable). If you still don't want to change it I suggest to removed sentence "Elements in $LOAD_PATH and $LOADED_FEATURES are expanded" from ruby_1_9_1 branch NEWS file because it's not true.
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