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List:       ruby-talk
Subject:    Re: ruby if no input
From:       Christian Szegedy <szegedy () nospam ! or ! uni-bonn ! de>
Date:       2002-10-04 14:48:02
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Kontra, Gergely wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've seen a great idea in pike (not a big one, but helps beginners...)
> 
> If you start the language without any file, and input is terminal, the
> interactive system should start.
> 
> Any comments?

This is quite common (see e.g. hugs).

Ruby also reads from stdin if started without a file, this is of
course not too helpful for a beginner, but allows for using it as a pipe.
I think this is the optimal way a scripting language should behave.

Regards, Christian








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