From: Yohanes Santoso <ysantoso@...>
Date: 2002-04-05T06:32:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Kernet methods and IO methods

Markus Jais <info@mjais.de> writes:

> that is, the IO#gets  is completely different from Kernel's "gets" method.
> I do not mean, that they work differently, but they are implemented
> seperately in Kernel and again in IO.

Think of Kernel#gets as:
def Kernel.gets 
   STDIN.gets
end

STDIN is a predefined variable pointing to an IO object that
represents that standard input. So, Kernel#gets uses IO#gets.

YS.