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List:       ruby-talk
Subject:    Re: why won't ruby chomp for me?
From:       "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward () fattire ! ngdc ! noaa ! gov>
Date:       2004-01-30 3:44:57
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0401292032370.22333-100000 () fattire ! ngdc ! noaa ! gov
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On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Dion Mendel wrote:

> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:07:49 +0900
> From: Dion Mendel <nsb034@lostrealm.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
> Subject: Re: why won't ruby chomp for me?
> 
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:04:30AM +0900, Emmanuel Touzery wrote:
> 
> > i find myself many times forgetting that chomp and the 
> > fact ruby offers me the "raw" line format never ever helped me in any 
> > way. is it just historical praise to Perl?
> 
> I too find the chomp an ugly perlism.  Has anyone written code that makes
> use of the trailing line separator from IO#gets?
> 
> Unless someone argues why it would not be a good idea, I will submit an RCR
> for changing IO#gets to not include the trailing line separator by default.

it might not be agood idea when lines are empty... but i suppose it would
work.  i would loath having to remember to open a file in binary mode in order
for methods in IO to _not_ to automagical things to the data too...

2 cts.

-a

> 
> Dion.
> 
> 
> 

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