From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-04-02T19:01:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Opera bookmark cleaner.

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 06:54:08AM +0900, Mattia Peronio wrote:
> I just had the same problem writing that program (file that remains opened). I solved the problem with a block because i don't like to inherit classes for doing simple thinks like writing a stream to a file.

It's a good point about the file remaining open. You might want to note that

  def File.read(file_name)
    File.open(file_name) { |f| f.read }
  end

is not actually doing any 'inheritance' - it's just adding a new method to
an existing class. This sort of dynamic extension of classes/modules is a
very common Ruby idiom.

Regards,

Brian.