From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2002-09-06T02:55:17+09:00
Subject: Re: $0 == __FILE__ idiom for Unix only?

On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 02:15:17AM +0900, Laurent Julliard wrote:
> I have been using the Ruby idiom 'if $0 == __FILE__ ..... end' for 
> ages on Linux and now that I have to use some of my scripts on WIndows 
> it looks like this test doesn't work?
> 
> Is this supposed to work on Unix/Linux only or on all platforms??
> 
I don't have acess to a windows system, but it works on windows
dependening upon how program is called. That is, through

   ruby myrubyprog.rb

or through the autolaunching of .rb files....IIRC.

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Jim Freeze
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 def initialize; fun; end
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