From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-01-19T00:08:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9518] Re: reading an entire file as a string

ts <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> writes:

> >>>>> "D" == Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> writes:
> 
> D> Perhaps you have a random-access fixed-length file:
> 
>  Why you don't use #seek for this very special case ?

>  I don't see the advantage to modify IO#read 

I'm not particularly advocating modifying just OP#read. Instead, I was
saying that if there's a File::read which takes the additional seek
parameter, then it would seem to be consistent to add it to #read as
well.

Having said all that, I think there is a major flaw in the
suggestion. The seek parameter is meaningful to File.read, but may not 
be to IO#read. So, I think we'll just that that one quietly die ;-)

Dave