From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-07-21T16:47:23+09:00
Subject: Re: sysread and buffered I/O

Tanaka Akira wrote:

>>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.

I see. Well, maybe:
    readchars    # with an s
    readstr      # could be 'string' or 'stream'
    readsys      # reminds us of sysread

But I do not really care much, readchunk is ok if it works. :)


> Currently Ruby uses stdio because no one write it.

I do not know much about low-level I/O. How hard would this
be to do?


Hal