Discussion: Disambiguation of requires

[jwaldrip]

This is just to start a dialog. I love crystal and what the team has done thus far.

One thing I dislike about ruby is the ambiguity of the require syntax. I don't think requires should become global objects or constants. You should be able to control the assignment of other dependencies in the language. As someone who is debugging a certain file, I believe it is much easier to chase the rabbit when your dependencies are specified locally.

Other languages where this exists:

• Go
• Python
• Node.js
• ES6

[jhass]

See #140, #265, #1146, #2090, to some degree #1446 and crystal-lang/shards#16

I think we discussed this pretty throughout by now and I still feel like it doesn't fit into some of the core language design decisions already taken, at all.

[ysbaddaden]

Yes, closing as duplicate of #140 along with this statement by @asterite:

we won't change the require system. We might introduce a concept similar to refinements if we later find the need for it.