From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-04-16T03:06:58+09:00
Subject: translate Perl diamond operator to Ruby

Over the years, I've found the following to be an excellent way to whip
up quick, very useful Perl scripts:

  #!/usr/bin/perl

  while(<>) {
    # do stuff . . .
  }

Is there an equivalent idiom in Ruby?  So far as I'm aware, there's no
catch-all diamond operator in Ruby that allows one to create a default
input behavior for a script that accepts either a filename or piped
output of another command the way this works in Perl.  I certainly hope
there's an equivalent, though.

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