From: Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas Date: 2011-06-08T20:31:55+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:36842] [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #4824] Provide method Kernel#executed? Issue #4824 has been updated by Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas. Actually, maybe something like the snippet below would be ideal: if defined?(__MAIN__) ... This means __MAIN__ is still a constant, but one defined by the interpreter in some conditional way that is injected only in a single file (the main one). ---------------------------------------- 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. -- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org