Hi, At Fri, 9 Jul 2004 21:14:38 +0900, Michael Neumann wrote in [ruby-talk:105707]: > Is the following patch valuable? > It doesn't work if you require readbytes before stringio! I don't like this, because there are other IO-like classes, Zlib::GzipReader in bundled library for instance. Instead, what about separating such class-independent methods to a couple of modules so those classes can include them? -- Nobu Nakada