Hi All I’m just after some clarification on ‘require’ (I’m new to Crystal so still learning). The docs state that ‘require “foo”’ would look for foo in the standard library or in ‘lib’ (as either foo.cr OR foo/foo.cr). However when I require foo and foo is a Shard it will look in ‘lib/foo/src/foo.c…

Hi and welcome! The docs are outdated. I just sent a PR to fix this: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal-book/pull/355

Perfect - many thanks for the update. Thank you also for such a fantastic language. cheers Dave

It’s fixed now! :slight_smile:

Require - clarification

asterite September 1, 2019, 4:16pm 4

It’s fixed now!

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