From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2008-11-17T11:35:53+09:00
Subject: Re: IO#lineno= doesn't work the way I expected

On Nov 16, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:

> What *doesn't* make any sense to me is the idea that, for some reason,
> it's important and common enough an operation to misnumber line  
> numbers
> that there has to be a `lineno=` method that counterfeits line  
> numbers.
> What the hell is the point of that?  Please explain that to me.

Now that I agree with.  I have no idea why this method exits.  It's  
just as easy to do:

   f.lineno + 1000

James Edward Gray II