Sure, but when you send #readStream to a String, then you'll always get a ReadStream on that String. Perhaps there is a similarly-named method like #asReadFileStream that he meant to write instead (and that is just a guess, since I have no way of checking at the moment) -- Cheers, Peter On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Hannes Hirzel <hannes.hirzel@gmail.com>wrote:
Surely, but not what Randal implies in terms of streams I suppose....
The idiom implies that a file stream is created and that I get the content of a file -- not the content of the file name.
--Hannes
On 10/30/10, Peter Hugosson-Miller <oldmanlink@gmail.com> wrote:
The result you got is what I would have expected too.
-- Cheers, Peter
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Hannes Hirzel <hannes.hirzel@gmail.com>wrote:
Hello
Randal Schwartz writes in his blog
http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/writestreams-of-consciousness-going-...
about streams citing Derek Williams http://derekwilliams.us/?p=1411
He gives the following as an example of elegant syntax of Smalltalk
'myfile.txt' asFileName readStream contents
This does not work in Squeak nor in Pharo.
It produces a ReadStream on the contents of the _String_ 'myfile.txt'. i.e. the ByteString with 10 elements.
Comments?
Regards
Hannes