From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2002-08-25T02:21:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Can I write to DATA?

nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Fri, 23 Aug 2002 12:36:33 +0900,
> Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> 
>>>script_size = __DATA__.pos
>>
>>The following script prints -1. Is there some other way to get the
>>position without parsing?
>>
>>---
>>p DATA.pos
>>__END__
>>this is some data.
> 
> 
> This code gave 19 for me.  What's your ruby version (and
> release date) and platform?

puts RUBY_VERSION       # ==> 1.6.7
puts RUBY_PLATFORM      # ==> i686-linux
puts RUBY_RELEASE_DATE  # ==> 2002-03-01

#p __DATA__.type  # ==> NameError

p DATA.pos              # ==> -1

__END__
this is some data.


It looks like maybe __DATA__ is in 1.7?