On Fri Jun 16, 2006 at 20:00:29 +1000, O Plameras wrote: >Matthew Palmer wrote: > >>Reading the Fine Manual, we discover that your code probably won't work >>anyway: > >Yes, the two yield exactly the same results as shown below. > >#cat t1.rb >#!/usr/bin/env ruby >puts $stdin.readline while not $stdin.eof > >#cat t2.rb >#!/usr/bin/env ruby >puts $stdin.readlines while not $stdin.eof
I think the key difference here is the number of times the loop is execute. That is going to be different, and understanding that difference is probably extremely important to those in the learning Ruby SIG. Cheers, Benno _______________________________________________ coders mailing list coders@slug.org.au http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/coders
