From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nakahiro@...>
Date: 2009-12-10T11:16:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:27123] Re: [Backport #2431] StringIO#{gets,readlines} 	with "" (paragraph mode) trims last "\n"

Hi Vladimir,

> Yeah, fixing the specs is not a problem. But we need the clear
> statement from ruby-core, is the current MRI 1.8.* behavior for
> StringIO considered a bug and needs to be fixed, or is it considered a
> feature (albeit a bit inconsistent with the standard IO behavior).

Author(nobu) assigned this ticket to mame so it's a bug to be fixed in
ruby_1_8 (1.8.8dev). Branch mgmt policy allow to fix a bug by
committer.

Aside from this, 1.8.7 may not incorporate this fix even if it's a
bug. I strongly recommend to apply this fix to 1.8.7 as well (to
resolve StringIO-IO interface mismatch as you said) but it's
shyouhei's job.

// NaHi