From: hemant <gethemant@...>
Date: 2010-04-29T21:31:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Use of STDOUT.flush after puts

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Siep Korteling <s.korteling@gmail.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>> Instead of STDOUT.flush-ing multiple times, you can set STDOUT.sync =
>> true once.
>
> And, please, instead of using STDOUT, please use $stdout, this allows
> your users to mock stdout to somewhere else *without* getting constant
> redefinition warnings.


One can always use IO#reopen if one wants to redirect the output
somewhere. I still prefer constant declaration more than global
variable.



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