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Python needs an actual default function (lemmy.ml)
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Also, do y'all call main() in the if block or do you just put the code you want to run in the if block?

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[–] bastion@feddit.nl 9 points 4 days ago

Yeah, this is it.

What's hacky about an introspective language providing environment to all of the executing code, so that the coder can make the decision about what to do?

It would by hacky if Python decided "We'll arbitrarily take functions named "main" and execute them for you, even though we already started execution at the top of the file."

For C, this is less so. The body of the file isn't being executed, it's being read and compiled. Without a function to act as a starting point, it doesn't get executed.