From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...17n.org>
Date: 2004-07-21T16:30:51+09:00
Subject: Re: sysread and buffered I/O

In article <40FE1A4C.9080403@hypermetrics.com>,
  Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:

> I am not sure I like readchunk. I think I prefer an underscore
> at least. Other ideas might be:
>    read_partial   # looks better with underscore?
>    read_part
>    read_any
>    read_all  (?)
>    read_waiting (?)
>    read_avail     # meaning "available"
>    read_bytes
>    readbytes      # looks ok without underscore?

An underscore is inconsistent with other IO read??? methods: readchar,
readline, readlines.

Also, readbytes is already used by lib/readbytes.rb.

> OK, I see. The code is already written? Are we just seeking
> a name?

Currently Ruby uses stdio because no one write it.
-- 
Tanaka Akira