From: Tanaka Akira Date: 2004-07-24T12:45:19+09:00 Subject: Re: sysread and buffered I/O In article , "Ara.T.Howard" writes: > 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. I don't like such small extension library. -- Tanaka Akira