From: Dave Thomas Date: 2004-06-26T02:04:26+09:00 Subject: Re: Is it considered Harmful? On Jun 25, 2004, at 11:55, Sean O'Dell wrote: > a.read would do what #read does when it can't read because there's no > open > file. What does #read do now when it encounters an error it can't > handle? > Raise an exception? How does it know there's no open file? Go have a look at the code. Cheers Dave