From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-08-13T00:48:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Re-reading a portion of a source file from a specific point

On 8/12/05, daz <dooby@d10.karoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Austin Ziegler wrote:
> > On 8/12/05, daz wrote:
> > > Daniel Berger wrote:
> > > > From within a Ruby program, is there a way to get Ruby to re-read itself
> > > > from a specific part of the file?
> > This only works for the top-level script ($0). It does not work for
> > included scripts, the way that Perl's __END__ and DATA markers do.
> You just requoted Dan's original question:
> "re-read itself"

So I did. I meant to quote what you said about using __END__ and DATA.
To elaborate for those who may not have understood what I was saying,
though:.

Consider that Dan's program is "reread.rb". If I do this in "myreread.rb":

  require 'reread'

Then Dan's program will reread from the beginning of "myreread.rb"
($0) and not "reread.rb" if it uses __END__ and DATA.

-austin
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