From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2003-12-10T13:21:35-08:00
Subject: Re: Ideas for replacing $0==__FILE__

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Hal Fulton (hal9000@hypermetrics.com) wrote:

> >We also discussed on IRC having a "-t" flag to the ruby interpreter that
> >would run a TEST block (like BEGIN or END or at_exit), but __TEST__
> >seems even better than that.
>=20
> Are we talking about the same thing? In my scheme, if foo.rb had
> a __TEST___ section, it would be run simply by ruby foo.rb (and
> not run if foo.rb was require'd).

This is different than your use.

> How does that relate to the -t idea (which I don' quite get)?

If you add -t to the ruby interpreter (ruby -t foo.rb) then __TEST__
get run when ruby exits.  ($TEST would also be set like -d sets $DEBUG).

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