From: Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@...>
Date: 2008-07-16T20:16:42+09:00
Subject: Re: IO#gets with regex

Morris Brodersen wrote:
> in ruby 1.8.7, IO#gets takes a seperator string as argument. i suggest
> adding support for a regular expression to match any seperator.

That'd be problematic as its not always possible to accurately apply a regex 
to a file (or whatever the IO comes from) without reading the whole file (not 
without restrictions on the regex anyway), which would kind of defeat the 
purpose of using gets instead of read.