From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...17n.org>
Date: 2003-01-10T22:44:30+09:00
Subject: Re: 'borrow' Tcl's virtual file system

In article <20030110133201.GM32764@panoptic.com>,
  Dossy <dossy@panoptic.com> writes:

> Now, Dir.mkdir and File.open silently get redirected to operate on
> /tmp/foo.gz instead of the REAL underlying filesystem.  So, you
> get a whole "virtual" filesystem inside a single file.  This makes
> packaging apps and distributing them simple (one file contains many
> files, that can be read/written at runtime without having to unpack
> them).

I think the `redirection' can be implemented by method dispatch if we
have FileName class.  Such redirection is not required to be builtin
because Ruby is object oriented.

Note that open-uri provides URI::HTTP#open and URI::FTP#open.
-- 
Tanaka Akira