From: Alex Shulgin <alex.shulgin@...>
Date: 2007-09-19T03:15:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie: what's Ruby idiom for word-by-word input?

On Sep 18, 3:30 am, William James <w_a_x_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> But, dang it all, I'm gonna say you're cheating because
> you're still reading lines behind the scenes!
> Reading lines and breaking them into words is a lot
> easier than reading characters and constructing words.

Yeah, that is my point.  I only see a way to do this efficiently (w/o
reading the whole lines) by writing the routine in C and then using it
in Ruby.

Anyway, I probably won't bother, since there is no real problem--just
curiosity of mine. ;-)


Thanks all for discussing,
Alex