On 05.06.2010 15:30, Niko Schwarz wrote: 
Hi list,

http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=2508&can=4&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Summary%20Milestone%20Difficulty

The following mini unit test fails:

readWriteStreamShouldHonorStartIndex
    self assert: ( (ReadWriteStream on: 'hallo' from: 3 to: 4) contents = 'll')

Instead, contents returns 'hall'


Pharo image:core
Pharo core version: PharoCore1.1ALPHA, Latest update: #11383
Virtual machine used: pharo-vm-osx

Steps to reproduce:
1. Subclass TestCase and add the above method
2. run the test

Cheers,

Niko
Well, this is more an issue with contents, which returns the entire collection up to readLimit. (or position if it's a WriteStream)
From the ANSI standard:
"content returns a collection that contains the receiver's _past_ and future sequence values, in order".
The method which behaves as you expect, is called upToEnd.

Cheers, Henry