From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-12-21T14:07:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7837] Re: String as IO and/or File object?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:7776] Re: String as IO and/or File object?"
    on 00/12/21, ts <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> writes:

|Y> |mf = open("bigimage", "r").to_mmap("r")
|Y> |mf.scan(/.../)...
|
|Y> Pretty interesting.  I wish to see the extension which implements this.
|Y> I prefer just 'mmap' over 'to_mmap' though.
|
| It's not better to have String.mmap("path", "mode") ?

Probably.  It will be proved by the implementation.

							matz.