From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-04-30T23:14:00+09:00
Subject: Re: File.expand_path(__FILE__)


"Kent Dahl" <kentda+news@stud.ntnu.no> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:c6tmj9$58n$1@orkan.itea.ntnu.no...
> Robert Klemme wrote:
> > Where would you expect it to reside?  Maybe the best solution is
> >
> > $0      : path as used for invocation
> > __FILE__: abs path to current file
> >
> > Then I agree. :-)  Any objections?  Does this break existing code?
>
> Wouldn't this break the idiom of using
>
> if __FILE__ == $0 then
>   #...
> end
>
> to make a file both require-able and executable?
> I know I use it frequently.

Yeah, I think it is used quite frequently.  Darn.  The only ad hoc
sulution to this that occurs to me is to override __FILE__#== and $0#== to
repair this.  Now this starts getting ugly...  Simon?

    robert