From: Zev Blut <rubyzbibd@...>
Date: 2005-02-21T19:42:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Require  when Executed file is required by another file.

Hello,

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 15:19:59 +0900, Gennady Bystritsky <gfb@tonesoft.com>  
wrote:

> In general, it is very hard and time consuming to determine that  
> different paths refer to the same file, so require does not even try to  
> pretend that it is robust.

It certainly appears to be a bit tricky.  Although, it would be nice
if the executed program was added to $" so that it could prevent being
required again.


> Knowing how require works, you can easily implement some work around for  
> your particular case.

The solution for the day is probably that my colleagues and I need to
make all executable programs thin wrappers that only require the main
code and implement the __FILE__ == $0 logic.

Best,
Zev