From: Dave Thomas Date: 2004-09-04T01:52:37+09:00 Subject: Re: autochomp? On Sep 3, 2004, at 11:45, Robert Klemme wrote: >> What we need is TRAITS! Let's implement Perl6 in Ruby :) > > As I'm ignorant of Perl 6, how would you solve this by using traits? > Wouldn't a second method be simpler? (IO#readcontent or such) Why add just a single method when we can add an ENTIRE NEW FEATURE SET and complicate the language at the same time? Cheers Dave