From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-02-22T00:48:42+09:00
Subject: Re: destructive! operations

Brian Schr�der <ruby.brian@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:14:41 +0900, Christian Neukirchen
>> Then, stuff like that would be possible
>> 
>> while line = gets.ignore_if_nil.chomp
>>   ...
>> end
>> 
>> Maybe just a crazy idea... :-)
>
> What would the ignore_if_nil call in your example do? Wouldn't the
> above be equivalent to
>
> while line = gets.chomp
>   ...
> end

gets returns nil on EOF.

> Regards,
>
> Brian
>

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