From: John Johnson <johnatl@...>
Date: 2006-08-23T02:36:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir.bitbucket?

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:56:17 -0400, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> nobu@ruby-lang.org wrote:
> 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. :)

How about:

oblivion = File.open(nil, 'w')

Seems intuitive.

Regards,
   JJ

-- 
Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/