From: "rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas)" Date: 2012-07-05T23:27:41+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:46200] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6702][Open] Date should be either required or not Issue #6702 has been reported by rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas). ---------------------------------------- Bug #6702: Date should be either required or not https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6702 Author: rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas) Status: Open Priority: Low Assignee: Category: lib Target version: 1.9.3 ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-linux] Today I was trying to do some experiment with IRB: "Date.today" threw a NoMethodError. But Date was defined: "defined? Date" == "constant". If I explicitly required for "date" it worked, but this is pretty much weird. It would be better if either: - I got an undefined "Date" class instead - "date" was automatically required The current state is pretty much misleading. This also happens in JRuby, so I guess somehow this is an intended behavior, but it doesn't make any sense to me. -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/