The result you got is what I would have expected too.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Cheers,<br>Peter<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Hannes Hirzel <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:hannes.hirzel@gmail.com">hannes.hirzel@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hello<br>
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Randal Schwartz writes in his blog<br>
<a href="http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/writestreams-of-consciousness-going-to-xtream" target="_blank">http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/writestreams-of-consciousness-going-to-xtream</a><br>
about streams citing Derek Williams � <a href="http://derekwilliams.us/?p=1411" target="_blank">http://derekwilliams.us/?p=1411</a><br>
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He gives the following as an example of elegant syntax of Smalltalk<br>
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 � �&#39;myfile.txt&#39; asFileName readStream contents<br>
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This does not work in Squeak nor in Pharo.<br>
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It produces a ReadStream on the contents of the _String_ �&#39;myfile.txt&#39;.<br>
i.e. the ByteString with 10 elements.<br>
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Comments?<br>
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Regards<br>
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Hannes<br></font></blockquote></div>