From: Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
Date: 2011-06-10T00:30:29+09:00
Subject: Re: CORE - Replace "if __FILE__ == $0" with "executed?"

On 2 Ιούν, 16:30, Ilias Lazaridis <il...@lazaridis.com> wrote:
> The construct to detect execution of the file (in order to launch main
> code) looks like this:
>
> if __FILE__ == $0
>   main
> end
>
> I would like a more elegant code.
>
> I try to implement a method in Kernel
>
> #myib.rb
> module Kernel
>   def executed?
>     # detect in a clean way if the caller calls from an executed file
>     # return true if so, else return false
>   end
> end
>
> #maintest.rb
> require 'mylib'
> if executed?
>   print "works nice"
> else
>   print "seems to fail
> end
>
> What would be the code for executed?

related issue:

Provide method Kernel#executed?
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4824

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