From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-02-13T06:28:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby equivalent to source command

Robert Dober wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2008 7:47 PM, Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>> Brett Williams wrote:
>>> I figured this was the case.  I'll go with globals for my context.
>> The horror, the horror.
> I agree, i agree ;)
>> Here's an alternative: http://redshift.sourceforge.net/script.
> It does not seem to handle OP's problem though, which are locals or am I wrong?

Sorry, I should have made that clear. It uses module_eval, so you don't 
get locals, but using module constants and/or methods is better than 
globals :)

I like your hack. One possible pitfall is if the file has __END__. 
Another is that local vars can become methods that globally shadow 
Kernel/Object methods. For example, add this line to test1.rb:

open = false

Still, I might add this to the script lib as an option to capture locals 
in the module.

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