Bug #16016: Standard library `debug` is started if pass a file named `debug.rb` to Kernel#load

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.7.0preview1 (2019-05-31 trunk c55db6aa271df4a689dc8eb0039c929bf6ed43ff) [x86_64-darwin18]
• Backport: 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN

When I do this:

1. Write program to debug.rb on the current directory
2. Start irb
3. Kernel.load('debug.rb')
4. Happen this problem

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> Kernel.load("debug.rb")
/Users/tatumaki/.rbenv/versions/2.7.0-preview1/lib/ruby/2.7.0/x86_64-darwin18/continuation.bundle: warning: callcc is obsolete; use Fiber instead
Debug.rb
Emacs support available.

/Users/tatumaki/.rbenv/versions/2.7.0-preview1/lib/ruby/2.7.0/irb/context.rb:297:      @last_value = value
(rdb:1)

$ cat ./debug.rb
puts 'hoge'

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

It is a documented feature of Kernel#load:

If the filename does not resolve to an absolute path, the file is searched for in the library directories listed in $:.

Load with ./ explicitly.