From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2002-07-08T21:40:52+09:00
Subject: Re: How to determine EOF with sysread?

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 14:47:25 +0900, Sean Chittenden wrote:
>> Thanks all for the answers. Does it strike anyone as bad practice
>> to use a rescue for control flow? I thought a more explicit test
>> method would have been provided.
> 
> My C roots tell me, yes, but my Ruby roots tell me no. Having an
> exception thrown/caught is okay practice in Ruby.

It still seems wrong to me, since an end of file condition is an
expected situation, not an exceptional situation.

*shrug*

-austin
-- Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2002.07.08 at 08.39.15