Follow gem naming conventions and this is a non-issue -- both FooBar::Record and BazQux::Record can coexist for foo_bar and baz_qux gems, respectively. If a gem is defining other top-level constants outside of their gem module, then that's considered against convention, i.e. bad practice, and the language should not be modified to allow such a thing.
I'd like to hear of a real use case for namespaces that existing conventions don't already solve.
Similarly, if you want to group modules that don't conflict together under a short module name, nothing stops you from doing:
module MyGroup
include Module1
include Module2
...
end
In other words, wrapping them doesn't remove your ability to use short non-namespaced names.Using `include` of specific functionality into a class that will use it is furthermore an idiomatic way of avoiding that extra typing without polluting the global namespace
For that matter, you can often achieve close to what you're arguing for as well without actually making any changes to Ruby:
def wrap_load(path) = class_eval(File.read(path), path)
module Test
# some_file.rb will act as-if defined within Test
wrap_load("./some_file.rb")
end
You can do better than that, to get closer to emulate `require` rather than `load`, and handle dependencies.Overall, I think the fact you can do these things suggests you could probably write a good enough plug-in `require` monkeypatch suitable for the rare cases where `include` from within a class or module without needing a language extension.
This is not the Ruby ethos.
And why would you bother doing that when it would be a breaking change?