From: Anders Bengtsson Date: 2002-10-05T00:12:07+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby if no input Christian Szegedy wrote: > Ruby also reads from stdin if started without a file, this is of > course not too helpful for a beginner, but allows for using it as a pipe. > I think this is the optimal way a scripting language should behave. It could actually do both. If stdin is a tty then it could give an interactive session, otherwise fall back to the old behavior. I think there are some examples of programs doing this, but I can't think of one right now. /Anders -- A n d e r s B e n g t s s o n | ndrsbngtssn@yahoo.se Stockholm, Sweden | _____________________________________________________ Gratis e-mail resten av livet p� www.yahoo.se/mail Busenkelt!