Squeak streams only work on Array and String instances. The power of objects ;-)
Lukas On Saturday, April 11, 2009, Oscar Nierstrasz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can anyone explain to me why this works fine: > > ((WriteStream on: (Array new)) nextPut: #foo) contents. > > but this doesn't? > > ((WriteStream on: (OrderedCollection new)) nextPut: #foo) contents. > > The debugger shows that WriteStream>>nextPut: invokes > WriteStream>>pastEndPut: which invokes at:put: on the collection. > > This is ok for an array, but not for an OrderedCollection, as > OrderedCollection>>at:put: explicitly states it cannot be used to > append stuff to the end of the collection. > > Is it a bug in WriteStream that it sends at:put:, or does it just not > make sense to have a WriteStream on an Ordered Collection? > > (This is related to the split and join methods -- because of this > limitation, an OrderedCollection cannot be used as a joiner, it seems.) > > - on > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > -- Lukas Renggli http://www.lukas-renggli.ch _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
