From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2003-05-17T18:23:54+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR: $INCLUDED global var

In article <1053047645.721520.9976.nullmailer@picachu.netlab.jp>,
Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>In message "Re: RCR: $INCLUDED global var"
>    on 03/05/16, ahoward <ahoward@fsl.noaa.gov> writes:
>
>|__LIB__ ?
>|
>|  __LIB__ -> __FILE__ != $0, eg. we have been included.
>
>"include" is the C term, we use "require".  Anyway, I think the
>condition should be reversed, since we check that way.
>
>In message "Re: RCR: $INCLUDED global var"
>    on 03/05/16, Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU> writes:
>
>|What about
>|
>|   MAIN {
>|     # ...
>|   }
>|
>|It's sorta analogous with BEGIN and END.
>
>Better.  But I still want better name.
>
>							matz.
>

IF_THIS_FILE { #OK, it's kind of klunky
  #...
} 

-OR-

TEST {
 #...
}

I like the second one, because that's what I'm usually using the code in 
that secion for; unit testing a module or class(s) that appear above in 
the file.


Phil