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Mcandre moved page Talk:Scripted main to Talk:Modulinos: Use community accepted name for this article's content. "Modulinos" is still obscure, but less obscure than my goofy "scripted main" name.
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==What ''is'' an "Executable library"==
''(This section needs expansion and discussion to see if we have enough to create a task that is capable of being completed by enough languages.)'' --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 07:45, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
Since my words only carry so far, someone else wrote a short description of this behavior at [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1973373/why-does-it-do-this-if-name-main/1973391#1973391 Stack Overflow]. --[[User:Mcandre]]
When given a task in a programming 'contest' such as to create a simple function and to find values of that function at certain points; then you would be giving your example in the form of an executable library if:
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Some languages (like gambas and visual basic) support two startup modes. Applications written on these platforms start with an open window that waits for events, and it is necessary to do some jiggerypokery to cause a main procedure to run instead. I was going to create a new task to demonstrate how to achieve this, and then I remembered this "scripted main". Maybe this can be reorganized to include these requirements? It is not necessarily a "scripted" main, because visual basic is compiled, so we would probably need a rename, though I have not decided on a name for this yet, I am open to ideas. [[User:Markhobley|Markhobley]] 21:58, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
:FWIW in documentation that I have written, this is usually headed "Making the application startup from a main routine". [[User:Markhobley|Markhobley]] 22:08, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
:I would vote to start a new draft task for new topics as this is marked for a slow, lingering, death :-)
:I was wondering however, in your proposed task? Is it about, for example, clicking on a script file in windows to get the script to run versus clicking on the executable to get a [[wp:REPL|REPL]] to run on Windows? --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 06:34, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
::No. The jiggerypokery is done at project build time, not at run time invocation, so that would be a separate task. [[User:Markhobley|Markhobley]] 07:30, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
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