rubyists-

any ideas how to refer to the top level 'self' in a ruby program, that is to
say the self where self.to_s() == "main"

eg (intent - obviously doesn't work):

  class Klass
    top_level_self = ::self
    ...
    top_level_self.instance_eval 'code'
  end


-a

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