From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-07-23T22:02:09+09:00
Subject: Re: sysread and buffered I/O

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Tanaka Akira wrote:

>> i like the sound of
>>
>>    IO#reap
>>
>> alot, eg. :
>>
>>    #
>>    # read all chars available on pipe
>>    #
>>      buf = pipe.reap
>>
>> i think this method is much needed and no name exists for something like it.
>> if we pick one that is memorable people will use it and remember it.
>
> I like a method name longer than 4bytes ("read".length).  Because I
> encourage IO#read over IO#readpartial in usual case.

then perhaps using a short name, but it should be an extension to force
require statement :

   require 'io/reap'

   buf = pipe.reap

this would have the additional advantage that IO#reap is not normally defined.


-a
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