From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-07-09T02:07:47+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17507] Re: Aliases for class methods

"HarryO" <harryo@zipworld.com.au> writes:

> In perl one can do things like
> 
>    open(DATA, ">> data")
> 
> to open the file "data" for append.  Similarly with "> file", "< file",
> "+> file", "+< file" etc.
> 
> As far as I know, this syntax isn't available in Ruby,


  f = File.open("wombat", "a")

or

  f = File.open("wombat", File::APPEND, 0600)

will do the same


In general, translating Cookbook stuff to Ruby is quite difficult,
because the organization of the cookbook is to some extent oriented
around the Perl way of doing stuff. For an example, have a look at the
slide starting at

  http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/talks/perlmongers/img45.htm

Regards


Dave