Feature #642: __DIR__

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -

[trans (Thomas Sawyer)]

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There is an snippet of code found in many Ruby scripts, especially testing scripts. It is...

File.dirname(FILE)

For something so common --and something that can not, by its very nature, be put into a reusable method, it is annoying to have to repeatedly calculate the current scripts location. So I respectfully request that a future version of Ruby provide a built-in reference that can used instead:

DIR

This will improve readability, remove the need for extra variables to store this information, and at the very least, save us many a keystroke.
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[shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

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Not a bug.

Can you open another ticket with tracker named "Feature" ?
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[trans (Thomas Sawyer)]

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On Oct 13, 1:51 pm, Shyouhei Urabe [e-mail] wrote:

Issue #642 has been updated by Shyouhei Urabe.

Status changed from Open to Rejected

Not a bug.

Can you open another ticket with tracker named "Feature" ?

Yes. Of course. My apologies for overlooking it.

It there no way to change a bug into a feature, btw? Well, there's a
feature request for the Redmine folks.

Thanks,
T.

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[matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)]

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Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:19316] Re: Bug #642 DIR"
on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:30:50 +0900, Trans [e-mail] writes:

|> Can you open another ticket with tracker named "Feature" ?

|It there no way to change a bug into a feature, btw? Well, there's a
|feature request for the Redmine folks.

Of course there is. Done.

						matz.

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