From: Matt Armstrong <matt@...>
Date: 2004-01-06T08:34:36+09:00
Subject: Re: readlines changed from 1.8.0 to 1.8.1?

Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU> writes:

> $ cat >foo
> bar
> $ ruby-1.8.0 -e 'p IO.readlines("foo", nil)'
> ["bar\n"]
> $ ruby-1.8.1 -e 'p IO.readlines("foo", nil)'
> -e:1:in `readlines': Interrupt  from -e:1
> $ ruby-1.8.1 -v
> ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i686-linux]
>
> I had to interrupt the second one.

It is a bug that'll be fixed in future 1.8.x releases (at least, it is
fixed in 1.8 CVS.


-- 
matt