Re: [Pharo-users] Why should we not rely on #atEnd?

March 26, 2018

      reading the bug entry is worth
Thanks for posting it.

Stef

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 8:04 PM, Stephane Ducasse
<stepharo.self@gmail.com> wrote:
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Hi herbert
I did not read the issue but I imagine that it may be linked to the
fact that it raises an exception or not.
Now streams can also be infinite so atEnd: for them is always false.
Stef
On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 6:51 PM, Herbert VojÄÃk <herby@mailbox.sk> wrote:
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Citing from
https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/21577/Cannot-read-from-dev-urandom,
But we still shouldn't be relying on #atEnd so ... -- Alistair Grant
Why should we not rely on #atEnd? I had the impression that it is one of the
most fundamental stream APIs, alongside next, nextPut: and reset.
Herby