From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-09-23T03:22:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21556] Re: Reassigning and reopening $stdin

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:21553] Reassigning and reopening $stdin"
    on 01/09/23, Brian Marick <marick@testing.com> writes:

|I know that $stdin.reopen("alternate-in") will work, but I cannot find a 
|way to put $stdin back to its original value. So I don't see how you can 
|temporarily redirect $stdin. Perhaps the answer is just "you shouldn't ever 
|want to", which actually would be OK with me.

You've find the hole.  Sigh.  That is a behavior that I couldn't
define properly.  So $stdin assignment is not a final behavior.
If you have an opinion for what-it-should-be, I'm open.

							matz.