From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-03-15T16:37:39+09:00
Subject: Re: how to abruptly end a program?

Tom Cloyd wrote:
> So, I did a different test program -
> 
> require 'readline'
> puts "test under way\ninput var: "
> #opt = readline( "=--> \n")
> opt = gets.chomp
> puts( opt)
> __END__
> puts( opt)
> 
> result:
> test under way
> input var:
> 5
> 5
> 
> Here, we don't get an error. We just get ignored.
> This is nuts.

Looks correct. The __END__ line and everything after it is ignored. 
What's your example with an error?

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