[libxml-devel] Breaking old classes

[Sean Chittenden]

> Right?  With of course an obvious problem that require 'xml' is  
> surely going to conflict with someone else - putting us back with  
> the same problem.


You may be presuming too much.  Do a quick check, if nothing comes  
back, let's use it (why not?).

*puts evil hat on*  Here's another trick that we could use:

 >> module LibXML; end
=> nil
 >> b = false
=> false
 >> ObjectSpace.each_object(Module) {|m| if m.name == 'LibXML'; b =  
true; break; end }
=> nil
 >> b
=> true

Since it's done behind a require, it should only get evaluated once.  - 
sc

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Sean Chittenden
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