From: Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...>
Date: 2012-07-24T11:49:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:46706] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #4840] Allow returning from require

On 2012���07���24��� 11:42, Trans wrote:
>>> How about redefining `__END__` to allow to call it as a method?
>>
>> It has compatibility issue that __END__ is related to DATA.
> 
> Then what about `__end__`?
> 
> Tangentially, why not deprecate __END__? Is there some really
> important use case that we just can't live without? The whole idea
> strikes me as rather hackish, especially considering it is limited to
> main file.

I'd be much appreciated if __END__ was usable from a library file.

I'd write a tiny loader script and place obfuscated script body on __END__ then.