From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-10-04T03:53:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vec() command equivalent?

Hi,

In message "Ruby vec() command equivalent?"
    on 02/10/04, Andrew Cowan <icculus@gmdstudios.com> writes:

|In perl I can do this:
|
|vec(expr, offset, bits) 
|
|which is needed in non-blocking socket operations for data read and write 
|selects.
|
|Is there a Ruby equivalent for this?
|If not, anyone have a workaround for what vec() does?

You can use

  IO::select([fd1, fd2, fd3], [fd4, fd5], nil, timeout)

no vec() is needed.  But if you really need vec() equivalent, how
about Robert Feldt's BitVector?

See <http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-list.rhtml?name=BitVector>.

							matz.