From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-12-11T12:36:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Ideas for replacing $0==__FILE__

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:52:17 +0900, Steven Lumos wrote:
>> From this perspective, it would be nice to have a mechanism that (1)
>> is not enabled by default, and especially (2) is easy to parse out.
> Do people really consider this idiom to be *that* useful? Most of the
> times I've seen it used, it wraps either examples (better done in
> separate files, you can have more than one and more complex), or tests
> (*much* better done with Test::Unit).

Most of my modules have

if $0 == __FILE__ then
  require 'test/unit'
  ...
end

I wouldn't mind replacing this with a block like:

TEST {
  require 'test/unit'
  ...
}

-austin
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austin ziegler    * austin@halostatue.ca * Toronto, ON, Canada
software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2003.12.10
                                         * 22.35.11