hi martin! Martin DeMello [2008-07-10 21:48]: > Would be nice to have File.open_read, open_write and open_append > (or less clunky names if anyone can think them up; it's the > principle of the thing) to support the common cases. just added them to ruby-nuggets [1] ;-) (sans the 'open_') [1] <http://prometheus.rubyforge.org/ruby-nuggets/classes/IO.html> cheers jens