From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-06-20T01:33:18+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] IO#readn

On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Michael Neumann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I suggest to add a method readn to the IO class (and to StringIO,
> Socket...), which behaves similar to read(n), but raises an exception if
> the returned string is not of size n.
>
>  class IO
>    def readn(n)
>      str = read(n)
>      raise if str.nil? or str.size != n
>      str
>    end
>  end
>
> It's annoying to test for it in the application.
>
> Regards,
>
>  Michael

don't you think the code will be just as long/annoying with a begin/rescue
block?

-a
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