From: 7stud -- <dolgun@...>
Date: 2007-10-04T08:09:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Non-blocking 'gets' ?

Simon Krahnke wrote:
> 
>> One thing I found puzzling is having to call STOUT.flush.  When I don't 
>> include that statement, then the print statement is skipped.  Yet, if I 
>> use puts instead of print, then the flush call isn't necessary.  Anyone 
>> know why?
> 
> stdout is auto-flushed on newlines. puts includes a newline, print
> doesn't.
> 

Then how come this program:

print "Enter command: "
input = gets

displays "Enter command: " to my terminal?
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