From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...17n.org>
Date: 2004-03-31T22:40:11+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 23214-23268

In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403310557190.17153-100000@fattire.ngdc.noaa.gov>,
  "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@fattire.ngdc.noaa.gov> writes:

>> [ruby-dev:23247] IO#readpartial
>> 
>>   TANAKA Akira suggested a new method IO#readpartial, which is
>>   a better sysread() implementation supporting stdio buffer and
>>   avoiding troubles due to non-blocking I/O.
>
> this would be an awesome addition to the stdlib - i need this at least once
> per week...

readpartial is rejected because matz doesn't like the name.
-- 
Tanaka Akira