[Ironruby-core] Should Kernel.require accept Assembly instances?

[Charles Strahan]

Those are valid points. Perhaps #load_assembly could accept an  
assembly reference.

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On Aug 7, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Orion Edwards <orion.edwards at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> What's the advantage to extending require?
>
> Presumably you're currently using the .NET Assembly.Load or  
> Assembly.LoadFrom methods to do this? (And if you're compiling code  
> in memory, you'll certainly be making heavy use of the .NET  
> reflection API's already anyway)
>
> Require is a standard part of core ruby, and is meant to take paths.
> While it's obvious to overload it to accept paths to dll's as well  
> as rb files, overloading it to take non-path things (such as .NET  
> assembly objects) seems like it's diverging a bit too far away from  
> it's normal (ie: MRI ruby) use, and more into the realms of  
> specific .NET extensions...
>
>
> On 7/08/2010, at 10:08 AM, Charles Strahan wrote:
>
>> What would you all think of having the ability to require a given  
>> Assembly?  I think this could be useful when compiling code in  
>> memory, in which case there isn't a path to give Kernel.require.
>>
>> If this is something we could all use, I'll open a ticket for it.
>>
>> -Charles
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