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In article <MPG.17f4563457f8536d98969d / news.flashnet.it>,
Overnight  <NOSPAM_jazz_x / libero.it_NOSPAM> wrote:
>> > Thanks. Wouldn't it be useful to have some special-name, autoloading 
>> > script? It would be the necessary starting point in defining a standard 
>> > for what happens at Ruby's startup time.
>> What would the standard be for how installed ruby libraries insert code 
>> into this file? Why not just use BEGIN {} in the library code?
>
>Hi. 
>
>BEGIN {} in library code would init the library for sure, but how would 
>the library be *automatically* loaded?
>
>Pythonistas in this newsgroup surely know about site.py, the special file 
>that Pythons looks for and loads at startup. At current time (and in the 
>ActiveState distro) it is used to standardize the addition of site-
>specific dirs to Python's search path and the execution of a special 
>"sitecustomize" module. This is something more elaborate that adding -
>r<something> to RUBYOPT.
>

- - GACK! Yet another reason why "Python is not for me". This is an
awful idea from my point of view. 

- - Booker C. Bense 

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