From: Lazaridis Ilias <ilias@...>
Date: 2011-06-05T15:01:10+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:36743] [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #4824] Provide method Kernel#executed?


Issue #4824 has been updated by Lazaridis Ilias.


Some notes subjecting the naming:

The clarity of the method name should be rated in it's OO context, like this:

if self.executed? # or .started? .launched?, which means *not* .included? .required? .loaded?
  # do main code
end

similarly, one could write:

unless self.executed? 
  # do inclusion code
end

"self" would be "the module" or "the file" or "the main object"

Possibly the most simple word would be "main?", but strictly from a OO view, this would be not correct. 

Although, from a user view, it looks simple and recognizable:

if main?
  do main stuff
end

unless main?
  do inclusion stuff
end

In any way, the name should be a compact one, e.g. without "_", like is_started? 
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Feature #4824: Provide method Kernel#executed?
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4824

Author: Lazaridis Ilias
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: core
Target version: 


The current construct to execute main code looks not very elegant:

if __FILE__ == $0
  my_main()          # call any method or execute any code
end

With a Kernel#executed? method, this would become more elegant:

if executed?
  #do this
  #do that
  my_main()
end

or

main() if executed?

This addition would not break any existent behaviour.



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