From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2004-03-24T00:26:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby style guidance (was: Re: Need some advice on PickAxe II)

Hello gabriele,

Tuesday, March 23, 2004, 3:44:27 PM, you wrote:


gr> take as an example: how to iterate on stdin input?

gr> One may use 

gr> while gets
gr>  do stuff with $_
gr> end

gr> or $stdin.each_line
gr> or $stdin.each do |line|
gr> or 
gr> while line = gets
gr> end


gr> yes I could go and grep the whole stdlib but I'd prefer to have a
gr> reference

Ruby is the successor of Perl, so there are many ways to do it.
There is no consistent style in the standard library. It is written by
a lot of persons and in 1.8 a lot of files are included that nobody
expected to be ever in the standart library.


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