From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-07-07T05:23:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a name for this idiom?

On Jul 6, 2007, at 3:20 PM, Lyle Johnson wrote:

> When you want to move your program's startup code into a block like  
> so:
>
> 	if __FILE__ == $0
> 		# initialize and run program here
> 	end
>
> What's that called? Is there a commonly used name for that  
> "startup" block?

I have referred to such a block of code as the "application code"  
more than once, but I don't in anyway believe that's a standard name  
for it.

James Edward Gray II