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Completing Toplevel's proxy of Object class
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Completing Toplevel's proxy of Object class

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rubyworks/main_like_module
• Owner: rubyworks
• Created: 2011-12-20T04:26:34.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2012-02-28T19:01:35.000Z (about 14 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-08T00:42:56.008Z (about 1 year ago)
• Language: Ruby
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• Size: 105 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: HISTORY.md

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# Main Like Module

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__DESCRIPTION__

Did you know `main`? Main is actually the special name Ruby gives

to the toplevel object. This object is very special, it is actually

in part a proxy object for the Object class itself. But it's only

a partial implementation.

I have long argued that the toplevel object should be replaced with

an self extended module, e.g.

    module Toplevel

      extend self

      # ruby is executed here

    end

This would have a couple of significant benefits. First, the toplevel

would no longer pollute every other object in the system. And second,

the toplevel would be a fully operational module context.

Alas, so far, no avail. But there's always hope. In the mean time,

we can at least support the second point by completing the proxy,

making it emulate the Object class context in full. And that's 

exactly what Main Like Module does.

__COPYRIGHTS__

Copyright (c) 2009 Rubyworks

Main as Module is distributable in accordance with the BSD-2-Clause license.

See COPYING.md for details.