In article <Pine.LNX.4.60.0407230652540.13379 / harp.ngdc.noaa.gov>,
  "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward / noaa.gov> writes:

> then perhaps using a short name, but it should be an extension to force
> require statement :
>
>    require 'io/reap'
>
>    buf = pipe.reap
>
> this would have the additional advantage that IO#reap is not normally defined.

I don't like such small extension library.
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Tanaka Akira