Bug #5210: Kernel#require documentation is incomplete

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: drbrain (Eric Hodel)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.1p378 (2010-01-10 revision 26273) [i386-mingw32]

[agrimm (Andrew Grimm)]

The documentation for Kernel#require could benefit from additional description.

It does not describe what a return method of false means. Many people initially think that a return value of false means that the require method was unsuccessful. See, for example, http://stackoverflow.com/q/1250329/38765 and http://stackoverflow.com/q/1793693/38765 . So explaining that it merely means that the library has already been loaded would be useful.

Mentioning that a LoadError is raised if unsuccessful would also be nice.

As a side issue, "it's" is used when it should be "its". The former means "it is", while the latter mean "something belonging to it".

[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

• Category set to doc
• Assignee set to drbrain (Eric Hodel)

[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

This issue was solved with changeset r33027.
Andrew, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.

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• load.c (rb_f_require): Improve documentation of Kernel#require.
  [Ruby 1.9 - Bug #5210]