From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-08-07T02:27:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19238] Re: Some remarks from a nembie in Ruby

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

> Dave Thomas wrote: 
> > I'd much, much rather see a IO#autochomp= method.
> 
> I don't like the idea of some kind "global state variable" which
> would impact the semantic of gets and getline.  It may give all
> sorts of problems, so it wouldn't be used.

It's an instance method, so it would be local to a particular file
instance.


Dave