diff --git a/.document b/.document
index 2471a9ce85..230c50e387 100644
--- a/.document
+++ b/.document
@@ -9,3 +9,8 @@
 # the lib/ directory (which has its own .document file)
 
 lib
+
+
+# and some of the ext/ directory (which has its own .document file)
+
+ext
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d56cf4bab6..915d96061e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Sun Oct 10 12:32:08 2004  Dave Thomas  <dave@pragprog.com>
+
+	* lib/rdoc/parsers/parse_rb.rb (RDoc::parse_require): Allow 'require'
+	  to be used as a variable name
+
 Sun Oct 10 02:49:14 2004  Minero Aoki  <aamine@loveruby.net>
 
 	* ext/ripper/lib/ripper/filter.rb: require ripper/tokenizer.
diff --git a/lib/rdoc/parsers/parse_rb.rb b/lib/rdoc/parsers/parse_rb.rb
index 90194e0699..e862cc71e1 100644
--- a/lib/rdoc/parsers/parse_rb.rb
+++ b/lib/rdoc/parsers/parse_rb.rb
@@ -2406,10 +2406,12 @@ module RDoc
     when TkDSTRING
       warn "Skipping require of dynamic string: #{tk.text}"
     else
-      error("Unknown argument type to require: #{tk}")
+      warn "'require' used as variable"
     end
     if name
       context.add_require(Require.new(name, comment))
+    else
+      unget_tk(tk)
     end
   end