From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-07-03T02:49:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Feature Request: Special file '-' denoting stdin/stdout

On 7/2/07, Ronald Fischer <ronald.fischer@venyon.com> wrote:

> Since this is such a common usage of the '-', I suggest that
> it should be incorporated into Ruby in a similar way as in Perl.

This reminds me of David Black's post about this kind of logic:
http://www.infoq.com/articles/coming-from-ruby

I don't think that just because something is common in other languages
/ tool chains that it necessarily means it belongs in Ruby.

Personally, I'm happy to see many Rubyists moving away from the
symbolic shortcuts seen in Perl, and I am a former perl programmer. :)

If it feels useful to you, perhaps release a gem that implements it
and require it in all your projects.

-greg