From: Jens Wille <jens.wille@...>
Date: 2008-11-16T23:54:49+09:00
Subject: Re: IO#lineno= doesn't work the way I expected

Tim Hunter [2008-11-16 15:52]:
> Jens Wille wrote:
>> and wrt tim's comment: since we're using IO#gets there's no
>> need to check for empty files. with IO#readline it's another
>> matter. but why bother? did you (tim) have something else in
>> mind?
> All I had in mind was that, when I write a piece of code that
> expects a file to have at least 2 lines, then I need to think for
> a second about what it should do when the file has only 1 line,
> or 0 lines. It depends on the program. That's all.
ah, ok, i see. thanks!