From: Dmitri Colebatch <dim@...>
Date: 2003-01-09T12:03:14+09:00
Subject: Re: prompt

> > > Is there a Ruby idiom to do prompting? For example,
> > >
> > > ../rm.rb: remove `t'? y
> >
> > also, couldn't you do this with the readline module?
> >
> > brennan
>
> gets doesn't work. I tried it at the beginning. I think the problem is
> that it  Reads the *next* ``line'' from the I/O stream. (So it can't
> read the string following the question mark.)

huh?  so is the following really stupid:

    def run
        while (cmd = gets.chomp)
            eval(cmd)
        end
    end

?  I'm writing a simple little app to introduce myself to ruby doing pretty
much that...

tia
dim