From: "ko1 (Koichi Sasada)" Date: 2013-02-17T15:17:27+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:52353] [ruby-trunk - Feature #5653] "I strongly discourage the use of autoload in any standard libraries" (Re: autoload will be dead) Issue #5653 has been updated by ko1 (Koichi Sasada). Target version changed from 2.0.0 to 2.1.0 time up. 2.0.0 was fixed. Matz, could you consider it on 2.1.0? Or please reject it. ---------------------------------------- Feature #5653: "I strongly discourage the use of autoload in any standard libraries" (Re: autoload will be dead) https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5653#change-36398 Author: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Status: Assigned Priority: Normal Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Category: lib Target version: 2.1.0 Hi, Today, I talked with NaHi about enhancing const_missing to enable autoload-like feature with nested modules. But autoload itself has fundamental flaw under multi-thread environment. I should have remove autoload when I added threads to the language (threads came a few months after autoload). So I hereby declare the future deprecation of autoload. Ruby will keep autoload for a while, since 2.0 should keep compatibility to 1.9. But you don't expect it will survive further future, e.g. 3.0. I strongly discourage the use of autoload in any standard libraries. matz. -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/