Hi Cyril, On 1 December 2017 at 12:04, Cyril Ferlicot <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Alistair Grant <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Cyril, >> >> The normal way to handle this is #asFileReference, so you can just have: >> >> aStringOrReference asFileReference readStreamDo: ... >> > > In that case, if it is a String like 'test', we will get a readStream > on the file './test' and not on the string 'test'. This is not what I > want. > > What I want is this for example: > > > > MyClass>>addComaAtTheEndOf: aStringOrFileReference > "If the argument is a String, add a coma at the end. If the > parameter is a file, add a coma at the end of its contents" > > aStringOrFileReference writeStreamDo: [ :s | s atEnd; nextPut: $, ] > > > > If I use your code, it will not add a coma at the end of the string > parameter, but at the end of the file represented by the string if it > exists.
Sorry, I misunderstood. This looks like a good addition. Although is there any reason it shouldn't be added to SequenceableCollection, where #readStream and #writeStream are defined? Cheers, Alistair
