From: "Peña, Botp" <botpenaXremovetheXs@...>
Date: 2003-09-06T17:44:28+09:00
Subject: Re: sleep command in iterators (silly n00b toy question)


Gavin Sinclair [mailto:gsinclair@soyabean.com.au] helpfully explained:
 
> > Hey!  It works!  That's so neat, thanks!
> 
> > Any chance you'd care to explain a little bit, what I just 
> did??? ;-)
>...
> Anyway, to answer your real question, IO objects have a 
> "sync" method which synchronises their output, instead of 
> buffering it.
> 
> Another way to ensure your output is not buffered is to 
> explicitly "flush" it.  This may better style than using 
> "sync" because it doesn't interfere with other parts of the program.
> 
>   def print_dots(io=STDOUT)
>     25.times do
>       io.print "."
>       io.flush
>       sleep 1
>     end
>     io.puts
>   end

cool.
never thought about flush. Can you put in wiki, sir Gavin.

> 
> HTH,

it helped indeed.

> Gavin

kind regards -botp