From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-07-03T23:17:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Feature Request: Special file '-' denoting stdin/stdout

On 7/3/07, Ronald Fischer <ronald.fischer@venyon.com> wrote:

> 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.

Sure, it"s a good idea to ask questions like these.   I guess I was
just cautioning against over-emphasis of utility in other languages.
I think that perl probably inherited the '-' from UNIX based tools,
and probably a few years ago, people would have been more receptive.

Nowadays, we're looking to avoid making Ruby unreadable, even at the
cost of some symbolic hacky fun.