From: Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>
Date: 2000-08-09T05:00:49-05:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:04373] Re: DATA and rewind.

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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