From: Wilbert Berendsen <wbsoft@...4all.nl>
Date: 2001-04-27T16:43:32+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14303] Re: Ruby vs. Tcl input/output question

Yesterday at 2:11am, bw said:

> [I am new to ruby]

Me too, but (also) coming from Tcl

> As far as I have seen, RubyIO just maps to UNIX system calls.
> Maybe someone can comment on this:
>
> * line-buffering: gets() has \n at the end
>    so that 99% of all code looks like this: gets(); chomp() (from Perl?)
>    why not doing it like Tcl, strip the EOL on input
>    and add the EOL later at output (if needed).

See other reply in this list. I like this. Lines are just strings, and
concatenating them restores the original string (a file's contents).

> * Tcl-Eventloop:
>    the greatest thing of Tcl is for sure the Eventloop which
>    combines File/Pipe/Socket readable/writeable-events AND Tk-GUI
>    AND 'decoupled callbacks' via [after <time> command]
>    I could not find such a thing in Ruby (where to look?)

Maybe this can be mimic'ed using Ruby threads?

Wilbert
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