From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2010-04-30T19:34:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Use of STDOUT.flush after puts

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Charles Oliver Nutter
<headius@headius.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 2:09 AM, Robert Klemme
<snip>
>
> IO.popen doesn't require IO#reopen to be available to users, so I'm
> not sure what you mean by that. It may do something similar to reopen
> under the covers, but that's an implementation detail.
Gives me the opportunity to point out that JRuby1.5 completely
supports open4 now.
That is really great!
<snip>
In general I feel that abstraction is the way to go.
>
Cheers
R.


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