Babashka main function in the command line but not REPL

[oyarsa]

I'm just starting with Babashka, but something is bugging me: how can I ensure that a function (-main or whatever) is only run from the command line? I don't want it to run when I'm evaluating my file in the REPL.

My current approach is to wrap the top-level forms in a run function, comment its invocation, and only uncomment when I'm done developing and want to run it as a script. That's not very clean, though, so I wonder if there's something similar to Python's if __name__ == '__main__' to take care of that automatically.

I know Babashka supports running the -main function if you invoke it correctly, but for simple scripts, it involves changing the classpath to point to the current directory, and I don't get tab completion on the shell to pick the file.

[borkdude]

Hey @oyarsa !

We have this pattern for your use case, very similar to Python's pattern:

https://book.babashka.org/#main_file

[oyarsa]

I checked the book, but somehow I missed this. Thank you!