From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-07-03T03:11:17+09:00
Subject: Re: getting rid of $0

Tim Pease wrote:
> 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
> 
Does that solve the problem?  Isn't that vulnerable to the same issues 
as just using $0?

-- 
Alex