From: Dion Mendel <nsb034@...>
Date: 2004-01-30T10:07:49+09:00
Subject: Re: why won't ruby chomp for me?

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:04:30AM +0900, Emmanuel Touzery wrote:

> i find myself many times forgetting that chomp and the 
> fact ruby offers me the "raw" line format never ever helped me in any 
> way. is it just historical praise to Perl?

I too find the chomp an ugly perlism.  Has anyone written code that
makes use of the trailing line separator from IO#gets?

Unless someone argues why it would not be a good idea, I will submit an
RCR for changing IO#gets to not include the trailing line separator by
default.

Dion.