From: Daniel Baird <danielbaird@...>
Date: 2006-08-22T10:05:13+09:00
Subject: Re: working around "single-pass" constraint

On 8/22/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
>
> if you take tis to the next step it's really useful
>
>    class Main
>      def foo
>      end
>      def bar
>      end
>      def run
>        foo and bar
>      end
>    end
>
>    Main.new(ENV, ARGV).run if $0 == __FILE__
>
>
> the reason is that it allows your program to be used as a library without
> polluting the global namespace.

I agree, but the OP wants to see the main algorithm at the top of the
file (at least, I think that's the idea), so "run" should be at the
top:
class Main
  def run
    foo and bar
  end
  def foo
  end
  def bar
  end
end

Main.new(ENV, ARGV).run if $0 == __FILE__


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