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author | Benoit Daloze <eregontp@gmail.com> | 2019-07-13 15:35:16 +0200 |
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committer | Benoit Daloze <eregontp@gmail.com> | 2019-07-13 15:35:16 +0200 |
commit | b1ee7148f8f9007d7154bf147daecc8c70dc44a3 (patch) | |
tree | 876578d91c991adc0bd73f5c1a04157fb9bc4486 /doc | |
parent | 0a5463f7645f6366e2239268de5bc56c0dfea9d1 (diff) | |
download | ruby-b1ee7148f8f9007d7154bf147daecc8c70dc44a3.tar.gz |
Improve documentation of $LOAD_PATH
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/globals.rdoc b/doc/globals.rdoc index 284f3d764e..b1e0369481 100644 --- a/doc/globals.rdoc +++ b/doc/globals.rdoc @@ -24,11 +24,11 @@ $*:: The same as ARGV. $$:: The process number of the Ruby running this script. $?:: The status of the last executed child process. This value is thread-local. -$LOAD_PATH:: Load path for scripts and binary modules by load or require. - Aliased to $: and $-I. Has a singleton method - $LOAD_PATH.resolve_feature_path(feature) that returns - [:rb or :so, path], which resolves the feature to the path the - original Kernel#require method would load. +$LOAD_PATH:: Load path for searching Ruby scripts and extension libraries used + by Kernel#load and Kernel#require. Aliased to $: and $-I. + Has a singleton method $LOAD_PATH.resolve_feature_path(feature) + that returns [:rb or :so, path], which resolves the feature to + the path the original Kernel#require method would load. $LOADED_FEATURES:: The array contains the module names loaded by require. Aliased to $". $DEBUG:: The debug flag, which is set by the -d switch. Enabling debug |