From: M Mohr <messju@...>
Date: 2002-10-05T07:08:51+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby if no input

Anders Bengtsson <ndrsbngtssn@yahoo.se> writes:

> 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.

bash and tcsh, i would say. and gnuplot.
 
> /Anders

regards
messju