From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2002-02-28T05:39:32+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR 65: IO orthogonalization, improved reusability

On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 03:50:10AM +0900, Matt Armstrong wrote:
> It would be cool if classes like MultipartReader could implement a few
> simple methods (like read and optionally seek) and then be passed to
> an IO::Wrapper class that turned them into full fledged objects that
> had all the neat methods of IO like each, each_byte, each_line, eof,
> eof?, getc, gets, lineno, print, printf, seek, etc.

This sounds a lot like implementing a <=>(other) method, then
including the Comparable module and getting other comparison
operators, doesn't it?

Massimiliano