From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2003-12-11T10:23:32-08:00
Subject: Re: Ideas for replacing $0==__FILE__

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Austin Ziegler (austin@halostatue.ca) wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 06:21:37 +0900, Eric Hodel wrote:
> > 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.
> >> 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.
>=20
> >> 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).
>=20
> Hm. I'm not sure I like that. Why not:
>=20
> TEST {
>   ...
> }
>=20
> The block is only run with ruby -t ...; otherwise it works just like BEGIN
> {} and END {} blocks.

This was the original idea.

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