From: Jens Wille <jens.wille@...>
Date: 2008-07-11T06:29:31+09:00
Subject: Re: file modes

hi martin!

Martin DeMello [2008-07-10 21:48]:
> Would be nice to have File.open_read, open_write and open_append
> (or less clunky names if anyone can think them up; it's the
> principle of the thing) to support the common cases.
just added them to ruby-nuggets [1] ;-) (sans the 'open_')

[1] <http://prometheus.rubyforge.org/ruby-nuggets/classes/IO.html>

cheers
jens