[ruby-core:116684] [Ruby master Feature#20261] Add symbol alternatives to '' and nil for IO line separators

Issue #20261 has been reported by burdettelamar (Burdette Lamar). ---------------------------------------- Feature #20261: Add symbol alternatives to '' and nil for IO line separators https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/20261 * Author: burdettelamar (Burdette Lamar) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal ---------------------------------------- For IO's line-oriented read methods, there are two special values for the line-separator argument `sep`; I'm proposing to add (user-friendlier) symbol synonyms for those values: - `:paragraph` as synonym for `''` (read paragraphs). - `:slurp` as synonym for `nil` (read all). Details (code, documentation, tests) may be seen at https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/9921. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/