From: Sean O'Dell <sean@...>
Date: 2004-06-20T03:23:04+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] IO#readn

On Saturday 19 June 2004 10:07, Simon Strandgaard wrote:
> On Saturday 19 June 2004 19:01, Michael Neumann wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > I never liked it that read(4) might return only 3 characters.
>
> Wouldn't it be better then to change the behavier of #read itself, so
> it fails per default in case the specified number of bytes cannot be read.
>
> with ruby2 we should try to break as much as possible, and hopefully
> get it right.
>
> #readn smells too much like workaround :-)

I agree, a method called to read n bytes should raise an exception when it 
cannot.

	Sean O'Dell