From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-03-17T10:43:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading from a string

Hi,

At Sat, 16 Mar 2002 17:28:27 +0900,
Thomas Sondergaard wrote:
> > 1.7 has StringIO.  Or you can find many StringIO, StrIO and so
> > on.  One of them (and the base of one in 1.7) is avaiable with
> > CVS, rough/ext/stringio.
> 
> Have you reimplemented the features like gets, readline, readlines, etc.
> from IO or are you using the same implementation?

Yes, except for <<, print, printf, puts.  readline and
readlines are also candidates for reuse, but gets is currently
primitive for IO.

> Wouldn't it be nice to
> write these features once and for all and make them available to all
> (future) stream implementers?

Agree.  Above 4 functions got exported already, so extension
libraries can reuse them.

> Would it be possible for you to refactor StringIO, so the implementation
> of these convenience methods become available to other "IO" stream
> implementers?

Considerable.

> IO RCR: http://www.rubygarden.org/article.php?sid=179
> IO RCR Discussion: http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?IORCR

Thanks, I'll read them.

-- 
Nobu Nakada