On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 11:42:18AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: Absolute paths in $""
>     on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:17:19 +0900, transfire / gmail.com writes:
> 
> |Any chance Ruby 1.8.5 will have absolute paths in $" instead of
> |relative ones? I know that's planned for 2.0 but I sure could use it
> |now.
> 
> I'm afraid it's too big change for 1.8 which is under stable mode.
> Any opinion?

Such a change would be likely to affect RubyGems and applications/libraries
using it, and in particular Rails, which does funny things with $:.

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