On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Minero Aoki wrote: > [ruby-dev:23220] Ruby module > > Nobuyoshi Nakada proposed a new module `Ruby' and to move RUBY_* > constants in it e.g. Ruby::VERSION, Ruby::RELEASE_DATE. > Matz said that he does not like this idea (Ruby module) very much. i like this idea. i could be a place to do things like Ruby::EXCUTABLE # '/usr/local/bin/ruby-1.8.1/bin/ruby' Ruby::gem? 'session' # true Ruby::pthread? # false etc. i mean you could put common/distilled things from rbconfig plus info about things which were added later - methods about installed packages or someting > [ruby-dev:23247] IO#readpartial > > TANAKA Akira suggested a new method IO#readpartial, which is > a better sysread() implementation supporting stdio buffer and > avoiding troubles due to non-blocking I/O. this would be an awesome addition to the stdlib - i need this at least once per week... -a -- =============================================================================== | EMAIL :: Ara [dot] T [dot] Howard [at] noaa [dot] gov | PHONE :: 303.497.6469 | ADDRESS :: E/GC2 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305-3328 | URL :: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/ | TRY :: for l in ruby perl;do $l -e "print \"\x3a\x2d\x29\x0a\"";done ===============================================================================