From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2009-02-02T15:27:47+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21732] Re: [Feature #1081] add File::write() convenience method

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:21701] [Feature #1081] add File::write() convenience method"
    on Sun, 1 Feb 2009 05:46:57 +0900, Suraj Kurapati <redmine@ruby-lang.org> writes:

|Please add a File::write() convenience method to the core Ruby API.
|
|Currently, it is easier to read whole files than to write them:
|
|  # reading a whole file --- less effort
|  text = File::read('foo.txt')
|
|  # writing a whole file --- more effort
|  File::open('foo.txt', 'wb') {|f| f.write 'ruby!' }

open() has following API

  open(path, mode="r", mode=0, opthash=nil)

write() has

  IO#write(string)

What do you think proper API for combined File.open?

  File::write(path, string, mode, opt)

or

  File::write(string, path, mode, opt)

or whatever?  The latter would conflict with some in-house definition
of File::write.

							matz.