Add a note about requires with more than string literals about detective HOT 2 CLOSED

Actually, is there a reasonable use case for using require()s with a variable for example, despite knowing they won't be found? If not, then maybe an error could be thrown?

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I've thought about this, and kinda, but I'm not sure it's worth supporting. Consider this case:

var myLib = require(process.env.LIB_DIR + '/my-lib');

If you use envify and process.env.LIB_DIR === '/project/libs', then after the transform, you'd have:

var myLib = require('/project/libs' + '/my-lib');

That should be concatenated and returned as the require value. But that would open a giant can of worms.

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