From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2008-07-11T06:36:38+09:00
Subject: Re: file modes

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Jens Wille <jens.wille@uni-koeln.de> wrote:
> 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>

Neat :) I suggested the open_ because I was wondering how you'd get
around the fact that there was already an IO.read, but your solution
looks good.

martin