From: Tom Pollard <tomp@...>
Date: 2007-03-12T22:59:14+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.8.5p12: default IO object for gets() ?


On Mar 12, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Roel Harbers wrote:
> It might be a bit quirky, it took me by surprise too. However, it's
> right there in the documentation.
>
[...]Is it going to be changed maybe?
>
> Not likely. Quite a lot of scripts use it to easily allow input from
> either stdin or a file, without having to bother with opening files.

It's a Perlism, another one of those little features that makes it  
easy to throw together a simple text processing script with very  
little boilerplate.  Perl is full of them.

Tom