From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-05-04T22:03:57+09:00
Subject: Re: IO::write

On Tue, 4 May 2004, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In message "IO::write"
>     on 04/05/04, Charles Comstock <cc1@cec.wustl.edu> writes:
> 
> |Why is there only an IO::read, and no equivalent IO::write that takes a 
> |filename, a string to write, and an optional offset in the file to start 
> |writing at?  Or better yet an IO::write(filename[,offset])= string to 
> |write to file.  I don't know it seems useful to me for quickly writing a 
> |response out to a file anyone else?
> 
> IO::read is a equivalent of 
> 
>   IO::open(path, "r"){|f| f.read(*args)}
> 
> But IO::write that is
> 
>   IO::open(path, "w"){|f| f.write(*args)}
> 
> is, for my eyes, useless for most of the cases.  Besides that, I don't
> feel it is intuitive that IO::write to "open, then write once, then
> close".  Even if we decide to implement the method, we should prepare
> better name.
> 
> 							matz.

IO#cat  ??

-a
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