From: Lennon Day-Reynolds <rcoder@...>
Date: 2004-07-23T04:47:26+09:00
Subject: Re: File.new("file.ext", "w").write data

Erik,

The file handle will indeed stay open until the File instance is GC'd.
The block-passing version is a few extra characters, but is much
better for long-running processes, or those which open large numbers
of files, as it automatically closes the file at the end of the block.

Lennon