From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-01-18T15:21:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9492] Re: reading an entire file as a string

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:9484] Re: reading an entire file as a string"
    on 01/01/18, Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> writes:

|> How about IO::read(path[,size[,offset]]), where offset is the optional
|> position to start reading?
|
|Sounds good. Will File#read change too?

I think it won't.  there cannot be "initial offset" for each
invocation of IO#read.  Do you think you need "pre-read skip offset"
for IO#read?

							matz.