From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...17n.org>
Date: 2005-09-17T07:24:48+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] IO#clearerr

In article <Pine.LNX.4.62.0509161558490.31195@harp.ngdc.noaa.gov>,
  "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> writes:

> we need it.  any reason why it couldn't shouldn't be done?

ruby 1.8.3 calls clearerr before getc automatically because stdio has
non-portability about that.

ruby 1.9 has no error and EOF flag to clear because it doesn't use
stdio.
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Tanaka Akira