From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-03-28T14:17:23+09:00
Subject: Re: input without blocking

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, brian yahn wrote:

> I'm just trying to get the characters being input into the program and
> run it at the same time without a thread.  A thread is not needed in c++
> to do this, so I figured it wouldn't be needed in ruby.  Maybe ruby
> isn't as great as I first thought.

probably not:


   fortytwo :~ > cat a.rb
   require 'io/nonblock'
   p STDIN.nonblock{ STDIN.gets }

   fortytwo :~ > ruby a.rb</dev/null
   nil

   fortytwo :~ > ruby a.rb<a.rb
   "require 'io/nonblock'\n"


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