Feature #11227: May it be possible to add some symbols to IO.new() ?

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[shevegen (Robert A. Heiler)]

Hello.

IO.new() wants a number.

io = IO.new(1)

Would it be possible or desirable to also allow symbols?

Such as:

io = IO.new(:stdout)

The :stdout seems to make it slightly easier for me
to remember which of the variants (0,1,2) is which
(stdin, stdout, stderr).

[normalperson (Eric Wong)]

[e-mail] wrote:

IO.new() wants a number.

io = IO.new(1)

Would it be possible or desirable to also allow symbols?

Such as:

io = IO.new(:stdout)

The :stdout seems to make it slightly easier for me
to remember which of the variants (0,1,2) is which
(stdin, stdout, stderr).

I don't see the point.

Why not use existing STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR (or $stdin, $stdout, $stderr)?
No need to allocate new IO objects.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

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Or maybe STDIN.dup?