From: David Corbin <dcorbin@...>
Date: 2002-04-14T21:10:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Silence warning

Sean Chittenden wrote:

>>/home/dcorbin/projects/homenet/tools/testall.rb:41: warning: already
>>initialized constant ARGV
>>
>>I'm getting this, because I'm assign ARGV=[].  Is there anyway to do
>>this, and not get the warning? Some trickery of some sort?  Thanks.
>>
>
>ARGV is a global variable that is prepopulated for you with the
>command line arguments...  why would you want to change the contents
>of that variable?  I personally treat ARGV as a readonly
>variable... and now that I think about it, it'd be really cool if a
>security level of 1 or greater made that read only.  ::hint hint:: :~)
>-sc
>
One of the modules I'm using has an END block that uses ARGV.  The only 
way I know to control this behavior is to set ARGV manually, before the 
I 'require' the module in question.