From: Jens Wille <jens.wille@...>
Date: 2008-07-11T06:43:55+09:00
Subject: Re: file modes

Martin DeMello [2008-07-10 23:36]:
> 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.
well, it's not completely backwards compatible, since the original
IO::read would silently take a block. but i thought aliasing it and
only behaving in the new way if a block was provided, would be ok.
so i opted for the "less clunky" names ;-)

cheers
jens