From: schuerig@... (Michael Schuerig)
Date: 2001-02-03T23:10:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10306] Re: Local directory search "server" script

Mike Wilson <wmwilson1@go.com> wrote:

> >#! /usr/bin/ruby -w
> >
> >require 'cgi'
> >
> >
> >def main 
> >  @myname = File.basename($0)
> >  @searchprog = "agrep -clr"
> >  @hits = {}
> >  @totalocc = 0
> >
> 
> ==Possible stupidity disclaimer ;)
> I've never seen instance variables used in a non-OO program yet, do you do
> that because you create a main method and you want those visible through
> the whole file while still being able to define them within your method? I
> would've expected $myname, etc, but the @ took me by suprise ;)

It's not meant to be clever, it's just the first thing that occurred to
me...

Michael

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