From: Benoit Daloze <eregontp@...>
Date: 2011-11-14T19:19:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:41013] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #5628] Module#basename

On 14 November 2011 07:32, Andrew Grimm <andrew.j.grimm@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Issue #5628 has been updated by Andrew Grimm.
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> I'm not sure about the method name. What should happen with File::basename ? Should it call super when there's no arguments, and do its own thing when called with an argument? I'd prefer Ruby to tell me that I forgot to pass in a string!

I also agree this would be useful.
But the name 'basename' is probably not the best.
I remember I used simple_name for this, but it's not appealing.