From: Alan Chen <alan@...>
Date: 2002-02-26T10:20:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question

On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 09:14:05PM +0900, ts wrote:
> >>>>> "A" == Alan Chen <alan@digikata.com> writes:
> 
> A> p bypasses the Ruby I/O libraries.
> 
>  What do you want to say with this ?
> 
> pigeon% cat b.rb
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
> def $defout.write(a)
>    super("WRITE : " + a)
> end
> 
> p "here"
> pigeon%
>  
> pigeon% b.rb
> WRITE : "here"WRITE : 
> pigeon% 
> 
> 
> Guy Decoux
> 

Actually, that wasn't my writing, that was quoted from the appendix
of Programming Ruby. Maybe it's something to put in the eratta.

-- alan

-- 
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