Greetings monkish ones,

I have a tiny little module (two methods and a class variable) that I need to write tests for. I'm thinking of making it a self-testing module such that if you just run it directly, it will run it's tests, but not if it is used/required into a script. I have two questions.

  1. Is this a good idea (or at least not a bad one)?
  2. What is a good way to determine when a module is being run directly? My first thought is to check %INC to see if the module name is mentioned there. Is there a more direct/reliable way to do this? Another way might be to examine $0, but that seems more messy.

--DrWhy

"If God had meant for us to think for ourselves he would have given us brains. Oh, wait..."

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