From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2001-01-20T02:13:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9553] Re: reading an entire file as a string

On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 ale@crimson.propagation.net wrote:
> > |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.

This was simply a stupid error in my original mail. It is assumed that
buff exists beforehand. I should have added buff=nil before: 

1.   buff =      File.open("/etc/hosts") {|f|        f.read() }
2.   buff = nil; File.open("/etc/hosts") {|f| buff = f.read() }

matju