From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-01-18T10:04:14+09:00
Subject: Re: gets is blocking print in simple example

Hi,

Fixed today.  Thanks for pointing it out.

							matz.

In message "Re: gets is blocking print in simple example"
    on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:35:16 +0900, "David A. Black" <dblack@rubypal.com> writes:

|When I run this in 1.9:
|
|   print "Hello. Please enter your name: "
|   name = gets
|
|I get nothing; it doesn't print the prompt until after I've entered a
|keyboard line.
|
|It works in 1.8. I'm assuming this is a bug (I can't imagine that we
|have to manually flush STDOUT just to print a prompt), but I thought
|I'd run it by the list and see if anyone has any comments or insight.
|
|David