From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-05-05T07:14:00+09:00
Subject: Re: IO::write

On Tue, 4 May 2004, Charles Comstock wrote:

> Robert Klemme wrote:
> 
> 
> > 
> > Did you consider using a logging framework?  e.g. log4r
> > http://log4r.sourceforge.net/
> > 
> > 
> 
> Actually in this case a logging approach wouldn't have been quite what I 
> needed.  I could have used it, but it was more that I was using lots of 
> small files to tag metainfo to a directory, so the log would not have 
> been the best solution.
> 
> Maybe it shouldn't be read, maybe it should be readfile and writefile, 
> as well as appendfile.  I'm trying to find a nice orthogonal set that 
> still makes symantic sense.
> 
> Charlie

how about

  class File
    def File.read(path)
      ...
    end
    def File.write(path, buf)
      ...
    end
    def File.append(path, buf)
      ...
    end
  end

??

-a
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