From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2010-04-30T05:34:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Use of STDOUT.flush after puts

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Benoit Daloze <eregontp@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29 April 2010 21:06, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
> "$stdout IO The current standard output. Assignment to $stdout is not
> permitted: use $stdout.
> reopen instead."
> (in 1.9.2 I don't have any problem on doing "$stdout =", while I usually use
> $> instead)
so this is obviously false and reopen will not do the trick if I want
to intercept messages passed to $stdout.
> ("$> IO The destination of output for Kernel#print and Kernel#printf. The
> default value is
> $stdout.")
Hmm redfining $> instead of $stdout might indeed be a better idea for
capture of "standard" output.
<snip>
agree with everything else.
R.



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