Re: Documentation

lemontree75@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
1) By looking at the documentation File.read doesn't exist as a method.
However by it seems that File is a subclass of IO that actually
contains read. But this is not clearly specified in the documentation
(it is only mentioned that it is closely associated with class IO,
whatever this means)

The online version of Programming Ruby (1st edition) makes this clear.
Not that it links directly to it.

<http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/>

I'd suggest you use Programming Ruby instead.

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