> On Jun 4, 2016, at 6:25 PM, Matthias Zenger via swift-users
> <swift-users@swift.org> wrote:
>
> I wanted to use NSFileHandle (for a use case that requires streaming) and
> realized that this is an API that cannot really be used in Swift because it's
> based on Objective-C exceptions.
You’re right, NSFileHandle is a very archaic class (kind of a coelacanth) and
its I/O methods signal errors by throwing exceptions. It’s almost unique in
that regard; in general Cocoa APIs are only supposed to throw exceptions for
programmer errors like assertion failures.
> Are there any alternatives?
NSStream.
—Jens
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