You can get close if you use 'racket' to run the file; define a main function that has the code that should only run in standalone and then use the -m flag on the commandline.
Robby On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Matthias Felleisen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not available yet, but thanks for asking: I requested this feature a month > ago on our 'dev' list. > > > > > On Jun 2, 2011, at 5:42 PM, Rodolfo Carvalho wrote: > >> Sorry if I didn't find it somewhere obvious, but I don't know how to do the >> following. >> >> I would like a have a file that when run standalone executes some code, and >> when "required" by another module just provides some definitions. >> >> Example: >> >> ;------------------------------------------------------- >> ; my-lib.rkt >> (provide make-milk-shake) >> >> (define (make-milk-shake flavor) >> ...) >> >> ; run this only when run standalone >> (magic-thing >> (make-milk-shake 'banana) >> >> >> ;------------------------------------------------------- >> ; some-other.rkt >> (require "my-lib.rkt") >> >> (make-milk-shake 'strawberry) >> ; only make 1 milk shake of strawberry... >> >> >> >> That is, I am searching for an equivalent idiom for what in Python I'd write: >> >> if __name__ == "__main__": >> do_things() >> >> >> >> >> []'s >> >> Rodolfo Carvalho >> _________________________________________________ >> For list-related administrative tasks: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
