Subject: [ruby-core:30603] Re: The `open` Methods and Their Many Arguments
From: Run Paint Run Run <runrun runpaint.org>
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 05:47:45 +0900
References: 30602
In-reply-to: 30602
An addendum: the rdoc for IO.new specifies that `external_encoding:
?-` should set the external encoding of the stream to
Encoding.default_external, but IO.new, Kernel.open, etc., all raise an
ArgumentError in this instance.