From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-04-24T13:50:19+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14137] Re: Negative Reviews for Ruby and ProgrammingRuby

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:14109] Re: Negative Reviews for Ruby and ProgrammingRuby"
    on 01/04/24, Paul Prescod <paulp@ActiveState.com> writes:

|What happens in end-of-file for Ruby? Can a read() value return failure
|in multiple ways or just one?

'gets' returns nil (false value) at the end of line, whereas
'readline' raises exception.

							matz.