From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-10-16T23:55:43+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 18458-18504

From: "Paul Brannan" <pbrannan@atdesk.com>


> On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:01:22PM +0900, ts wrote:
> >  Read [ruby-talk:53308] you don't find something strange ?
>
> Yes, it does look strange.  Why bother assigning nil to r and w if the
> value is just going to be thrown away?
>
> Paul

I believe that if the people who originally wrote the library code did it
again, their collected experience in Ruby would cause them to write them in a
better style.

These and the sample code deserve to be revisited, but it's hardly as high
priority.

Gavin