From: Kent Dahl <kentda@...>
Date: 2001-12-20T00:07:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28934] Re: Stream?

Ron Jeffries wrote:
> Is there a memory stream object in Ruby, analogous to Smalltalk's
> 
>         ReadStream on: "abcdefghij"?

Not in the standard library per se, AFAIK. However, for most of my
usage, I can use File objects and Strings quite transparently for both
input and output.

If you'd shed some more light on the intended usage, there'll be a
plethoral of solutions posted in the wink of an eye :-)

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