From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...17n.org>
Date: 2005-02-01T12:49:53+09:00
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IO#clearerr missing in action

In article <93e943b735aa76574c10b35088a04a39@segment7.net>,
  Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> writes:

> Would it make sense to add this to Ruby 1.8 only then?

No.  It is too drastic to incorporate to 1.8.

> Or to patch rb_io_eof to clearerr before feof?

It changes 1.8 behavior.  Some people complained 1.8 changes in
ruby-dev recently.  [ruby-talk:127406]

So I'm coward to introduce the incompatibility to 1.8.
-- 
Tanaka Akira