From: Piers Cawley <pdcawley@...>
Date: 2001-08-07T19:55:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19280] Re: Some remarks from a nembie in Ruby

Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> writes:

> 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.

Which appears to be direction in which Perl is headed with the work
being done on extending C<binmode ARGS> to cope with different line
disciplines. 

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Piers Cawley
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