From: Lazaridis Ilias <ilias@...>
Date: 2011-06-23T15:20:08+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:37308] [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #4824] Provide method Kernel#executed?


Issue #4824 has been updated by Lazaridis Ilias.


The sentence "defines" essentially the terminology:

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> I agree providing a method to tell whether it is loaded  as a library or 
                                                ^^^^^^^^^
"is loaded"

loaded?

> is executed as a command
  ^^^^^^^^^^^
"is executed"

executed?

> is more elegant than '__FILE__ == $0', but I am still afraid #executed? can mean multiple ways so that the name can cause confusion.  We need a better name.

Thus the question to focus on is: 

* is "executed?" not clear enough?

If not, possibly just "loaded?" can be introduced.

main() unless loaded?


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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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