From: Piers Cawley <pdcawley@...>
Date: 2001-08-07T19:56:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19281] Re: Some remarks from a nembie in Ruby

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

> Dave Thomas wrote: 
> > 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
> 
> 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.

Global would be bad. Per IO object is surely the way to go.

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Piers Cawley
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