From: Torli Birnbauer <aipir@...>
Date: 2009-03-10T01:10:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Setting the contents of a file to a variable?

badboy wrote:
> did you read my post? why should we use a construct with a block if
> there are several methods to do this directly?

Because the block way is the Ruby way, besides it's much more efficient 
it does open, read and close in one short command! Beside it its 
elegance it also has a pedagogical value, namely, it highlights and 
exposes the use of Ruby 1.9 usage of Symbol class to_proc strategy. So 
all I can say is: Matthias, excellent contribution to this thread, very 
good job.

Perhaps only a comment that even reading multi-line file into a variable 
sometimes can be useful with:

 guess = File.open("zorba.data", &:readlines)

Clearly the old way in comparison to the the block is more like the 
spaghetti code!

Torli
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