From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-08-07T01:17:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19228] Re: Some remarks from a nembie in Ruby

Renaud HEBERT <renaud.hebert@alcatel.fr> writes:

> While the point 10 may not be important enough to warrant such a change,
> I still do think that the point 20) is important: maybe adding
> additional methods getps and getpline (with p for portability) which
> gives only the line and not the end-of-line would be enough if the
> documentation explains the portability risk of gets and getline..

I'd much, much rather see a IO#autochomp= method.

To be honest, I'm surprised at how rarely I end up using chomp. I used
to use it all the time in Perl. I'm not sure why Ruby is different.


Dave