From: Benoit Daloze <redmine@...>
Date: 2011-06-05T22:29:10+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:36758] [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #4824] Provide method Kernel#executed?


Issue #4824 has been updated by Benoit Daloze.


Clifford Heath wrote:
> That is, the problem is that it's not obvious to a newcomer that __FILE__ means
> the current source-code file, or that $0 means the name of the script  
> being executed. Especially the latter...

$PROGRAM_NAME is an alias for $0.
But "if __FILE__ == $PROGRAM_NAME" is quite long.

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Feature #4824: Provide method Kernel#executed?
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4824

Author: Lazaridis Ilias
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: core
Target version: 


The current construct to execute main code looks not very elegant:

if __FILE__ == $0
  my_main()          # call any method or execute any code
end

With a Kernel#executed? method, this would become more elegant:

if executed?
  #do this
  #do that
  my_main()
end

or

main() if executed?

This addition would not break any existent behaviour.



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