Very confusing. Surely it would have been easier to keep getc as a
Kernel method. gets and getc are both very similar. Could someone ask
Matz when next they see him?


> Well Kernel#gets is ARGF#gets. ARGF is (in general) for writing well-
> behaved filters. Well-behaved filters work on a line by line basis
> usually. However ARGF.getc is not deprecated. This makes me think
> Kernel#getc is not ARGF.getc, but probably STDIN.getc. This is
> inconsistant with Kernel#gets and could thought to be confusing.
> Hence its deprecation. Just one man's theory.
>