+1 In most cases a circular require is not what you want Sent on the TELUS Mobility network with BlackBerry
-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Grieve <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:12:42 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Circular require()s Our module system currently allows cycles. However, the result of a cycle is often not what you'd want. What we do when defining modules is: module.exports = {}; factory(module) // either adds properties to or clobbers module.exports return module.exports; So, cycles in require()s will work only when: a) exports is extended instead of clobbered, and b) the result of the require is not used at the modules scope. I think these restrictions are too hard to get right, and that we should just make require cycles an error. Objections? Andrew
