Dave Thomas wrote: > Renaud HEBERT <renaud.hebert / alcatel.fr> writes: > > > While the point 10 may not be important enough to warrant such a change, > > I still do think that the point 20) is important: maybe adding > > additional methods getps and getpline (with p for portability) which > > gives only the line and not the end-of-line would be enough if the > > documentation explains the portability risk of gets and getline.. > > I'd much, much rather see a IO#autochomp= method. > > To be honest, I'm surprised at how rarely I end up using chomp. I used > to use it all the time in Perl. I'm not sure why Ruby is different. > > Dave I don't like the idea of some kind "global state variable" which would impact the semantic of gets and getline. It may give all sorts of problems, so it wouldn't be used. -- Renaud Hebert phone: (33) 01 30 77 59 92 mailto:renaud.hebert / alcatel.fr