From: schuerig@... (Michael Schuerig)
Date: 2001-02-04T03:10:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10313] Re: Local directory search "server" script

Mike Wilson <wmwilson1@go.com> wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Michael Schuerig"<schuerig@acm.org>
> To: "ruby-talk ML"<ruby-talk@netlab.co.jp>
> Date: Sat Feb 03 06:10:02 PST 2001
> 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...
> >
> 
> I just realized that it's possible that you/someone may have thought that
> the "stupidity disclaimer" was referring to my opinion of what you were
> doing.

No, I didn't even think of this. And anyway, I'm a Ruby Nuby and
therefore particularly interested in suggestions regarding style.
Actually, I changed the instances vars to globals in the meantime.

Michael

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