From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...17n.org>
Date: 2004-07-03T09:25:08+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 23763-23840

In article <Pine.LNX.4.60.0407020808300.32330@harp.ngdc.noaa.gov>,
  "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@noaa.gov> writes:

> why not
>
>    URI::read :

Because URI() can be used with other instance methods on URI.
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Tanaka Akira