[#4567] Re: What's the biggest Ruby development? — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>

Dave said:

18 messages 2000/08/23
[#4568] Q's on Marshal — Robert Feldt <feldt@...> 2000/08/23

[#4580] RubyUnit testcase run for different init params? — Robert Feldt <feldt@...> 2000/08/25

[#4584] Re: RubyUnit testcase run for different init params? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2000/08/25

Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> writes:

[#4623] Re: RubyUnit testcase run for different init params? — Robert Feldt <feldt@...> 2000/08/28

On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Dave Thomas wrote:

[#4652] Andy and Dave's European Tour 2000 — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

24 messages 2000/08/30
[#4653] Re: Andy and Dave's European Tour 2000 — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2000/08/30

Hi,

[#4657] Ruby tutorials for newbie — Kevin Liang <kevin@...> 2000/08/30

Hi,

[ruby-talk:04373] Re: DATA and rewind.

From: Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>
Date: 2000-08-09 10:00:49 UTC
List: ruby-talk #4373
Hi,

On the topic of how Ruby does DATA.rewind,
Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:

> I thought I had not put it quite
> right when I wrote '"least surprise for Perlists" is a good idea', but I
> thought from the context of my earlier message this would be clear.  I
> would have written it to rewind the DATA stream to the start of DATA, not
> the start of the file, but I see the merit of making it behave like Perl,
> and of course if Perl changes then the case for current behaviour is
> weakened.  But I'm less inclined to shout for change than I was
> originally.

Well, maybe there is a better way to do it. Why not have two types of
rewind or reset or whatever? I think both behaviors are useful.

-- 
Conrad Schneiker
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