From: Ronald Fischer <ronald.fischer@...>
Date: 2007-07-03T17:39:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Feature Request: Special file '-' denoting stdin/stdout

> > 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.

I agree with the basic idea - just because being in other languages,
does
not mean it should go to Ruby. The crucial point was that it has been
found IMO *useful* in other languages. Actually, Ruby does it that way
in other areas too - when it adopted, for example, the Regular
Expressions
or the interface to the net/telnet library from Perl. 

So the basic point - and I think that is the essence of a feature
request
- is to find out to what extent the Ruby community would find it useful
too. If it is just a minority, it certainly should not go into "Basic
Ruby". If we feel that a huge number of people would be glad, we could
consider moving it somehow into the core. One goal of my posting was
to see how other people would like the feature. To my surprise, there
was no positive response, so I guess that not so many would be happy 
with it.

Ronald