Issue #5011 has been reported by Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas. ---------------------------------------- Feature #5011: Add Perl 6-like main method definition support: accept command-line arguments as method arguments http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5011 Author: Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas Status: Open Priority: Low Assignee: Yukihiro Matsumoto Category: Target version: 2.0 Take a look at this: http://perlgeek.de/en/article/5-to-6#post_14 I'm not really sure how this would look like in Ruby, but I like the idea of defining a main method could extract their params from command-line params. This would also be an alternative for issue #4824: http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby-19/issues/4824 -- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org