From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-01-19T17:45:33+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9544] Re: reading an entire file as a string

Hi Aleksi,

In message "[ruby-talk:9543] Re: reading an entire file as a string"
    on 01/01/19, ale@crimson.propagation.net <ale@crimson.propagation.net> writes:

|> |1.   buff = File.open("/etc/hosts") {|f| f.read() }
|> |
|> |2.   File.open("/etc/hosts") {|f| buff = f.read() }
|> 
|> Thechenically they are same, but appearance makes difference.
|
|I'm sorry, I'm not following the idea of sameness here.

Ah, you fooled by my stupidity. ;-)

I should have mentioned I ignored the fact buff should be initialized
before.

							matz.