From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2001-10-27T07:54:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23564] Re: Newbie seeks %x{...} help

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Check out "open3", and if you find something interesting (or proposal
> to improve it), tell me.

Crap.  Double crap.  I *knew* this was it; in the back of my mind, a 
nagging little voice kept saying "maybe it is like Perl's open", but did I 
listen to it?  Nooooo.

I'm not particularly enamoured of what I consider "compounding arguments"; 
in this case, we have a flag stuck in the same argument with the file name. 
I can't think of an alternative off the top of my head, except maybe adding 
an argument to open.  Or maybe extending the block to have 
|stdin,stdout|... I don't know.

If you're seriously wanting an alternative, I'll put some thought into it.  
Otherwise, it isn't that important an issue to me.

Anyway, thanks Matz-san.

--- SER