constructor.rb in rio-0.5.1

- old
+ new

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 #--
-# =============================================================================== 
-# Copyright (c) 2005,2006,2007,2008 Christopher Kleckner
+# ===========================================================================
+# Copyright (c) 2005-2012 Christopher Kleckner
 # All rights reserved
 #
 # This file is part of the Rio library for ruby.
 #
 # Rio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -16,29 +16,14 @@
 # GNU General Public License for more details.
 #
 # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 # along with Rio; if not, write to the Free Software
 # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
-# =============================================================================== 
+# =========================================================================== 
 #++
 #
-# To create the documentation for Rio run the command
-#  ruby build_doc.rb
-# from the distribution directory.
-#
-# Suggested Reading
-# * RIO::Doc::SYNOPSIS
-# * RIO::Doc::INTRO
-# * RIO::Doc::HOWTO
-# * RIO::Doc::EXAMPLES
-# * RIO::Rio
-#
 
-#
-
-require 'rio'
-
 module RIO
   # Rio Constructor 
   #
   # For purposes of discussion, we divide Rios into two catagories, those that have a path
   # and those that don't.
@@ -203,10 +188,10 @@
   #
   # <tt>rio(nil)</tt>
   #
   # <tt>rio(:null)</tt>
   #
-  # This rio behaves like the Unix file /dev/null, but does depend on it -
+  # This rio behaves like the Unix file /dev/null, but does not depend on it -
   # and thus will work on non-Unix systems. Reading behaves as if reading from
   # an empty file, and writing to it discards anything written.
   #
   # ===== Creating a Rio Pipe
   #