From: Alia Amin <camin@...>
Date: 2002-09-06T02:57:51+09:00
Subject: Re: $0 == __FILE__ idiom for Unix only?


if __FILE__ == $0
...
end

or

if $0 == __FILE__
...
end

both works on Windows.

hth,
alia

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??
>
> Thanks
>
> LJ
>
>