From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-07-04T00:34:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Feature Request: Special file '-' denoting stdin/stdout


On Jul 3, 2007, at 9:17 AM, Gregory Brown wrote:

> 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.
>
You can always write your own module or library for it and make it  
available as a gem.
If it is popular and useful enough, it might become standard Ruby.