From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-08-22T15:14:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir.bitbucket?

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Daniel Berger wrote:

> nobu@ruby-lang.org wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> At Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:21:05 +0900,
>> Rick DeNatale wrote in [ruby-talk:209686]:
>> 
>>> And, since we're effectively looking for a write-only file, it seems
>>> that it would be better to make the implementation pure Ruby and
>>> platform independent, sort of like a StringIO without a string,
>>> instead of on platform specific blackholes like /dev/null or the
>>> others.  Then it wouldn't need to change if and when a new platform
>>> was to be supported.
>>> 
>> 
>> It doesn't work with child processes, which would be expected
>> in many cases.
>> 
>> I wonder if the name bitbucket is nice.
>> 
>> 
> Dir.bitbucket
> Dir.devnull
> Dir.null_device
> Dir.null
> Dir.black_hole
>
> I guess I'm leaning towards Dir.null_device in terms of most technically 
> descriptive.  It doesn't quite roll off the tongue as nicely as "bitbucket", 
> though. :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan

why 'Dir' though?  why not File?

-a
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