From: Steven Jenkins <steven.jenkins@...>
Date: 2004-01-30T00:47:49+09:00
Subject: Re: why won't ruby chomp for me?

ts wrote:
>  Probably the good question is : what is a line ? do the "line" separator
>  belong to the line or not ?

I suppose any language can define it any way. But it seems clear that 
much of the Ruby library is modeled after C and Unix (which are defined 
by international standards). In ISO C, the newline is removed from the 
string returned by gets().

On the other hand, C doesn't let you redefine the input line separator. 
Making one language comply with another language's specification is tricky.

Steve