From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2002-04-15T01:33:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Silence warning

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 12:43:24PM +0900, 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:: :~)

Hmm. I commonly extract arguments from ARGV using ARGV.shift.
Maybe I should consider this 'bad' practice and change my ways.


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Jim Freeze
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