From: Rich Morin <rdm@...>
Date: 2006-08-22T11:18:37+09:00
Subject: Re: working around "single-pass" constraint

At 11:52 PM +0900 8/21/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
>    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.

Assuming that my code contains generally useful functions,
this makes sense (and why bet the other way? :-).  However,
I'm curious whether I need to worry about the possibility
of bringing in multiple "Main" classes and "run" methods,
if I use this approach a lot.  Do you have any relevant
experience to offer?

-r
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