[#383997] CORE - Alternative Variable Substitution — Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
ruby 1.9
On 1 撫, 12:12, Peter Hickman <peterhickman...@googlemail.com>
On 1 撫, 16:22, Robert Klemme <shortcut...@googlemail.com> wrote:
On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 13:25:25 +0900, Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
[#384020] instance variable in pseudo-global scope — Chad Perrin <code@...>
As I understand things:
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net> wrote:
[#384029] minitest 2.2.2 Released — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
minitest version 2.2.2 has been released!
[#384051] CORE - Replace "if __FILE__ == $0" with "executed?" — Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
The construct to detect execution of the file (in order to launch main
On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 22:30:27 +0900, Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 10:51:46PM +0900, Peter Zotov wrote:
[#384072] Behaviour of different Proc types — Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
I realized that I just can't ever remember the different proc types
[#384085] Best way to replace hash keys — Alex Allmont <Alex.Allmont@...>
What is the most optimal and neatest way to replace keys in a hash given a particular condition?
[#384104] CORE - Altering Behaviour of "each do" (default param "item") — Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
1.9
On 8 Ιούν, 08:06, David Masover <ni...@slaphack.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@lazaridis.com> wrote:
Probably not without changing Ruby itself.
Actually it would be possible, although very ugly.
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@lazaridis.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 11:50:00PM +0900, James Gray wrote:
On 5 ホ厥ソマ歳ス, 17:19, Matthias Wテ、chter <matth...@waechter.wiz.at> wrote:
Hi,
On 6 撫, 01:11, Yukihiro Matsumoto <m...@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
Hi,
On 6 Ιούν, 12:24, Yukihiro Matsumoto <m...@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
2011/6/7 J旦rg W Mittag <JoergWMittag+Ruby@googlemail.com>
On 6 撫, 01:11, Yukihiro Matsumoto <m...@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
On Monday, June 06, 2011 03:35:30 AM Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
On 06.06.2011 16:57, David Masover wrote:
[#384219] how to repackage a ruby gem. — William Liu <william.weih@...>
Hi All,
[#384228] a little challenge - reproduce this error — Intransition <transfire@...>
Want to see a really amazing error I got this week? Okay... but to
throw NameError.new("uninitialized constant X::Foo::X")
This is a pretty trivial error to generate. Just reference the
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Intransition <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 8, 2011, at 10:56 AM, Christopher Dicely wrote:
On Jun 8, 10:56m, Christopher Dicely <cmdic...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Intransition <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
> I realize now maybe how I should have phrased this as a challenge
On Jun 9, 1:22m, John Feminella <jo...@bitsbuilder.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Intransition <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
[#384262] Where is the #hash method defined? — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>
Hi, any object in Ruby has the method #hash which returns an integer
> I cannot find which class or module #hash method belongs to. I
[#384273] Anyone compiled VIM 7.3 with 1.9.2 support? — Ned <rails.nerd@...>
Hi
[#384279] CORE - Literal Instantiation breaks Object Model — Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
class String
[#384280] BARRIER - require "rubygems" — Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
ruby 1.9.2p180 Windows 7
On 11 撫, 20:30, Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackr...@googlemail.com>
[#384283] Classic Computer Science Books — Stu <stu@...>
I wanted to start a thread discussion on classic computer science
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Stu <stu@rubyprogrammer.net> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:22:58AM +0900, Josh Cheek wrote:
Thank you for the responses. I look forward to reading others.
> queue to read Meyers C++ books and Crockford's Javascript: The Good
Hello Anurag
Hey Stu,
Wow, those are a lot of books, as a beginner programmer, I don't have
There is a classic series online called "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist"
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Stu <stu@rubyprogrammer.net> wrote:
On 10.06.2011 00:18, Stu wrote:
The Design and Construction of Compilers, Robin Hunter, John Wiley &
[#384322] PSA: Ilias is Crazy — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
I guess I have to post this periodically since our population is growing and changing so much.
On 6/10/2011 12:41 PM, Ryan Davis wrote:
Since this has escalated to giving the guy a thread with his name in
[#384335] strange ruby error — Junkone <junkone1@...>
i get strange error test.rb.rb:14: syntax error, unexpected '}'
[#384363] RFC - One word alias for require_relative — Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
This is a simple Request for Comments.
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Intransition <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Intransition <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
Back in the blissful days before I understood the `$LOAD_PATH` or the
On 16 撫, 17:29, Matt Harrison <iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com> wrote:
On 16/06/2011 16:10, Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
On 16 撫, 20:26, Matt Harrison <iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com> wrote:
On 16 Ιούν, 21:24, Jason Roelofs <jameskil...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 11 撫, 20:35, Ilias Lazaridis <il...@lazaridis.com> wrote:
On 11 撫, 20:35, Ilias Lazaridis <il...@lazaridis.com> wrote:
Hi,
On 18 撫, 02:30, Yukihiro Matsumoto <m...@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
On 19 Ιούν, 19:44, David Masover <ni...@slaphack.com> wrote:
On Sunday, June 19, 2011 12:20:28 PM Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
On 21 ホ厥ソマ歳ス, 21:55, Iテアaki Baz Castillo <i...@aliax.net> wrote:
On 16 撫, 19:45, "Matthew K. Williams" <m...@harpstar.com> wrote:
On 15 撫, 22:26, Florian Gilcher <f...@andersground.net> wrote:
On 15 撫, 22:58, Michael Edgar <ad...@carboni.ca> wrote:
On 15 撫, 23:22, Michael Edgar <ad...@carboni.ca> wrote:
On 11 撫, 20:35, Ilias Lazaridis <il...@lazaridis.com> wrote:
involve
On 16 Ιούν, 23:45, Adam Prescott <a...@aprescott.com> wrote:
On 17 撫, 21:17, Gary Wright <gwtm...@mac.com> wrote:
2011/6/17 Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@lazaridis.com>:
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Christopher Dicely <cmdicely@gmail.com> wrote:
On Monday, June 20, 2011 09:17:51 AM Adam Prescott wrote:
On 17 撫, 23:15, Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackr...@googlemail.com>
2011/6/17 Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@lazaridis.com>
2011/6/17 Salk Pugh-Pitt <salk.pughpitt@gmail.com>
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:32 PM, A. Stroh Turph <astroh.turph@gmail.com>wrote:
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Salk Pugh-Pitt <salk.pughpitt@gmail.com>wrote:
[#384375] sequel question: Where's SQLite? — Chad Perrin <code@...>
So . . . I need to get the Sequel gem working with SQLite on a Debian
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net> wrote:
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Mike Moore <blowmage@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 05:57:42AM +0900, Mike Moore wrote:
[#384432] commit message conventions — Intransition <transfire@...>
When I write commit messages I add a "team" prefix to the message,
I greatly dislike that style, to be frank. My commit messages usually
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 7:58 AM, John Feminella <johnf@bitsbuilder.com> wrote:
On Jun 13, 9:13濛m, brab...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jun 13, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Intransition <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
Agreed. Reference the ticket, which can hold all the data about what
[#384444] Hi rubies — medarkness arkness <rotakinrof@...>
[#384453] Regexp.match(line) question — m b <snert@...>
[#384467] A way to find out when a constant gets defined? — Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Hi, I'd like to be able to find out when a constant gets defined. I think I
Okay, I think I found the ultimate source of the problem was that RVM said
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> wrote:
> but the Bundler team
[#384473] ruby-oci8 2.0.6 — Kubo Takehiro <kubo@...>
Ruby-oci8 2.0.6 is released. This is the Oracle module using OCI8 API.
[#384490] Messages to Ruby List/Forum/etc. not arriving equally? — Markus Fischer <markus@...>
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Markus Fischer <markus@fischer.name> wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Markus Fischer <markus@fischer.name> wrote:
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/2440238#1018634 arrived in the mailing list
[#384494] Plugin best practices — Intransition <transfire@...>
If your making a plugin/extension for another project, do you create a
[#384500] CORE - Inconsistent Handling of Uninitialized Variables — Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
puts "\n== Testin in MAIN Context =="
On 15 撫, 21:05, Michael Edgar <ad...@carboni.ca> wrote:
On Jun 19, 2011, at 6:01 PM, Gary Wright wrote:
[#384521] queues? inotify? anything else? — Matt Harrison <iwasinnamuknow@...>
I don't even really know how to describe this problem. I know what I
[#384532] Kernel#autoload vs require_relative — Piotr Szotkowski <chastell@...>
I understand that for require to work relative to the given __FILE__’s
Ryan Davis:
On Thursday, June 16, 2011 11:50:57 AM Piotr Szotkowski wrote:
[#384579] win32-service gem — Daniel Stephens <danny.a.stephens@...>
Hey all, has anyone been able to use win32-service-0.7.0.gem. when I try to
[#384617] get execution name of program — Chad Perrin <code@...>
Either $0 or __FILE__ will return a filename to give context for how a
On Jun 17, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 03:03:50AM +0900, Michael Edgar wrote:
On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net> wrote:
[#384634] default config file location — Chad Perrin <code@...>
Is there a "better" way to specify a default config file location than
Chad Perrin:
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011, Chad Perrin wrote:
On 6/17/2011 14:45, Matthew K. Williams wrote:
[#384648] celluloid 0.0.3: a concurrent object framework for Ruby — Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@...>
Celluloid is a concurrent object framework for Ruby inspired by Erlang
On Friday, June 17, 2011 03:21:48 PM Tony Arcieri wrote:
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:25 PM, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:
On Friday, June 17, 2011 05:54:35 PM Tony Arcieri wrote:
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 6:25 PM, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:
[#384650] Threadsafing a mixin module without using self.new or initialize. — Mike Bethany <mikbe.tk@...>
Threadsafing a mixin module without using self.new or initialize.
[#384687] how would you set dynamically determined dependencies with or without bundler? — Jarmo Pertman <jarmo.p@...>
Hi!
[#384697] test scope issue — Chad Perrin <code@...>
My tests are broken. I generally suck at writing tests, so please bear
[#384742] What about Object#to_ruby ? — Bernard Lambeau <blambeau@...>
Hi!
I believe pry has this kind of thing: https://github.com/banister/pry
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 7:40 AM, Bernard Lambeau <blambeau@gmail.com> wrote:
[#384763] MIDASWAD - Matz is Dumb and so We are Dumb — Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
(public draft)
Before anyone engages this nonsense . . .
On 20 Jun 2011 20:32, "Chad Perrin" <code@apotheon.net> wrote:
Five posts in on this thread, and four of them are the self appointed
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Sam Duncan <sduncan@wetafx.co.nz> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 23:08, Sam Duncan <sduncan@wetafx.co.nz> wrote:
A quick, lazy response, because I shouldn't feed trolls anyway, and I simply
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 23:52, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 13:37, Adam Prescott <adam@aprescott.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 14:51, Adam Prescott <adam@aprescott.com> wrote:
[#384784] REWORK - Task: Unify behaviour of by-literal-instantiated Objects — Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
(Note: This task is part of the RUBY REWORK, which has (among other
[#384800] How to order a hash based on its keys? — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>
Hi, I want to order a hash using itds keys:
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Iki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:
2011/6/21 Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>:
2011/6/21 Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>:
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Iki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:
2011/6/22 Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>:
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Iki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:
2011/6/22 Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>:
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Iki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:
2011/6/22 Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>:
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Iki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:
2011/6/22 Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>:
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Iki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:
2011/6/23 Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>:
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Iki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Iki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:
[#384801] Once click, one (OO) life... — DavCori80 <davcori80@...>
Hi everyone,
[#384819] Gateway Shutting Down — James Gray <james@...>
Rubyists:
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:47 AM, James Gray <james@graysoftinc.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Martin DeMello
[#384863] vlad 2.2.1 Released — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
vlad version 2.2.1 has been released!
[#384864] Ruby embed called from a pthread — Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca <luizluca@...>
Hello guys,
[#384873] Explicitly setting compiler to C++ in extconf.rb... — "Darryl L. Pierce" <mcpierce@...>
I'm trying to setup a Ruby gem that bundles the Swig-generated bindings
Darryl L. Pierce escreveu isso a躡
On Jun 23, 2011, at 7:30 PM, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
On 06/23/2011 07:39 PM, Michael Edgar wrote:
[#384891] Honoring #to_ary and such — Intransition <transfire@...>
Well, for about the first time I am writing a library that has to be
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Intransition <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
[#384901] Symbol#=== — Intransition <transfire@...>
As:
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Intransition <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Intransition <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
[#384907] SPDX (and the glazing of ones eyes) — Intransition <transfire@...>
Never ceases to amaze me how complicated "enterprisey" peoples can
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Intransition <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 25, 11:11m, Josh Cheek <josh.ch...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Intransition <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 25, 11:54m, Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackr...@googlemail.com>
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Intransition <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
[#384927] Single Responsibility Question — Mike Bethany <mikbe.tk@...>
I'm trying to figure out who's responsible for a resource.
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Mike Bethany <mikbe.tk@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Robert, you always have excellent feedback.
[#384931] Rubicle, the unofficial Ruby mascot, released — info@...
Hello! We are rubicle.net administrators. We have released Rubicle, the UNOFFICIAL
So this is Ruby-tan? (ala http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-tan)
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@gmail.com>wrote:
[#384945] unicorn 4.0.0 - Rack HTTP server for fast clients and Unix — Eric Wong <normalperson@...>
Unicorn is an HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve
[#384950] Understanding Threading... — "Darryl L. Pierce" <mcpierce@...>
I'm working on a use case where I need to spawn a thread that handles a
[#384976] clock-scheduled operations — Chad Perrin <code@...>
Obviously, scheduling something to happen every foo seconds is easy.
[#384982] here docs: WTF am i doing wrong??? — serialhex <serialhex@...>
ok, so i'm trying to create a here doc for a little program i'm writing and
[#384996] A movie Renamer — Mayank Kohaley <mayank.kohaley@...>
Hello Guys,
Please don't steal movies.
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 06:17:55AM +0900, Sam Duncan wrote:
*sigh*
Really didn't want to get into this, especially since it seems like everyone
[#385002] Specifying non-standard include/lib directories on gem install... — "Darryl L. Pierce" <mcpierce@...>
Is it possible to specific non-standard directories when installing a
[#385019] A File Renamer — Mayank Kohaley <mayank.kohaley@...>
I guess this thread has spawned another issue. Let me close this and say I
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Mayank Kohaley
> Is there a pattern to the file names you are working with? The key is
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Johnny Morrice <spoon@killersmurf.com>wrote:
You should be aware that meta data can't be trusted. Not only do people not
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Mike Bethany <mikbe.tk@gmail.com> wrote:
Re: RFC - One word alias for require_relative
On Thursday, June 16, 2011 10:58:33 AM Phillip Gawlowski wrote: > "He is obsessed by the minutiae of syntax and apparently uninterested > in actually writing programs - he needs to invent some `perfect' > language before he can do anything, and he's starting with the syntax. > It seems quite likely that he's just trying to avoid doing anything at > all by endlessly fiddling with syntax." > > Now *that* sounds familiar, doesn't it? Indeed it does, and this is probably why I respond to him as much as I do, because I started out the same way. This is going to be a long one. I'll try not to tell this story more than once, because it's so long, and borders on actually being offtopic. I wanted a language which was "fast enough", where "fast enough" meant "at least as fast as Java, and better if it can approach C++", which compiled to portable bytecode, preferrably bytecode for VMs people are likely to have (Java or .NET) but a new VM would be acceptable, could run in 32-bit or 64-bit modes, had flexible syntax with minimal verbosity, was extremely dynamic semantically but ran as fast as static code, handled unicode well, had good multiprocessing primitives (like Erlang)... The list goes on. And on. And on. I rejected Ruby at first because it was "too slow", and because I didn't see a way it could be much faster, especially because I didn't quite understand the difference between symbols and strings. Also, it runs from source, and didn't seem to have any good compilers -- at the time, I thought I wanted to do game development, and while I wanted my game to be almost automatically portable (compile once, run anywhere, so I don't have to convince anyone to let me make a Linux version), I also didn't want to actually ship source. While I suppose I had a good rationale for almost every question I asked, I followed a very similar pattern to Ilias. I'd get annoyed when people would answer my real question instead of the one I asked, because then we'd be arguing about architecture, not realizing how much I had to learn about that. I would also wander from group to group -- I'm not sure I ever made an appearance on Ruby-Talk directly, but I suspect I hit the IRC channel at some point. I was really excited about Perl6 before it really was anything resembling an actual language. I tried Squeak, and rejected it because 64-bit support was experimental, and it seemed that it might be difficult to port software between 32-bit and 64-bit, and even if it would work perfectly eventually, the amount of work it was taking them to make a 64-bit Squeak VM suggested that either the language was too difficult to port or the community was too small to react to these kinds of changes in technology. Basically, I spent my teenage years like this. I would often be tempted to reinvent various wheels, and I still am. But when it came down to it, when I really had to, I could program. It started off really sloppy, and I actually still occasionally support programs I wrote as a teenager. Still, I was able to get things done, at first mostly in Perl, just little things, avoiding any project big enough that it would warrant The Perfect Language. The turning point was probably my first programming job, at a startup. For the first time, I was forced to work with other people, and to actually program roughly 8 hours a day, every day. For the first six months or so, it was entirely JavaScript, running on HD-DVDs. For the next six months or so, it was mostly Ruby -- Blu-Ray won, but we took our Rails backend for the HD-DVD stuff and adapted it into a music widget. The second time through, I saw a lot more of Ruby's brilliance. Plus, the performance had improved significantly, to the point where it was still common knowledge that "Ruby is Slow", but I could no longer see any major design decisions which made Ruby _pointlessly_ slow -- any decisions that would tend to make implementations slow weren't just carelessness, they were deliberate tradeoffs between performance and programmer productivity. I had to learn, the hard way, that there is no "perfect" language. While I can think of some things I wish some language did that no languages do yet, I no longer believe that there could ever be a language which is semantically "better" than all other languages in all ways. One thing many people on this list will be familiar with is Ruby vs JavaScript -- and I have to say, there are tons of things I miss about each in the other, and some of them are mutually exclusive. I like that every interaction with an object in Ruby is actually sending it a message (a method call, usually), but that's incompatible with JavaScript's idea that objects are just hashes of methods and values. That, and I actually learned to program. The biggest change in my thinking now is that, when I was a teenager asking the kind of questions Ilias does, I wasn't speaking from experience where a given construct actually bothered me. It just bothered me from some idealistic standpoint which had no connection to any program I have ever or will ever write. These days, when I complain that (for example) autoload didn't actually call the system require, I actually do have a good reason for wanting to intercept the behavior of autoload. That is, I've gone from being an idealistic, dogmatic, theoretical programmer to being an actual, practicing, empirical programmer. It just took me five or ten years, and I probably made some enemies along the way. So as rude and arrogant as he is, and as little as he deserves (or wants) my pity, it's kind of painful for me to see Ilias making the exact same mistakes I did, and then grew out of -- and frustrating when he refuses to hear a word of it. Hopefully this is useful, or at least interesting. Thanks for your patience, whoever's actually read this far. At the very least, now you see why it's so hard for me to actually not feed this troll.