[ruby-talk:5269] Re: problem: undefined method `size' for Fil e

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:5264] Re: problem: undefined method `size' for Fil e"
    on 00/10/04, Aleksi Niemel<[e-mail]> writes:

|matz critizes good solution argumenting with features lacking from some
|widely available programming language:

which implements Ruby interpreter. ;-)

|Humm..how about:
|
|  class File
|    def size
|      FileTest.size(self.path)
|    end
|  end
|
|  p File.new("file_size.rb").size

As Guy pointed out, things is not that simple.  Probably

  class File
    def size
      self.flush
      self.stat.size
    end
  end

is better.  But I'm not sure whether this works for all cases.

							matz.