From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2007-07-03T03:09:31+09:00
Subject: Re: getting rid of $0

On 7/2/07, Michel Demazure <michel@demazure.com> wrote:
> The common idiom
>  if __FILE__ == $0 then ...
> gives bugs when $0 is not what one would expect, for instance under a
> debugger, or in rubyscript2exe, etc.
>
> There should be a primitive test
>    if <nice name to be found> then...
>

require 'English'

if __FILE__ == $PROGRAM_NAME
  ...
end


Blessings,
TwP