On Jul 18, 2008, at 5:01 PM, Bill Schwab wrote:
Stef,
I do not doubt that the image is littered with such problems. On
several occasions, I lost 10-15 minutes tracking down errors that
resulted from unopened files. It is all a continuation of my streams
"rant" (a well-intentioned one, of course).
Meaning no disrespect to the milestones (in particular, streams being
slated for the future), I have undertaken an effort similar to what
you
propose: putting an end to silent failures and lack of protection.
As a
streams addict, I need stable semantics, and have thus embarked on my
#nextOne, #nextMany:, etc. solution to reaching that goal. It also
became clear that FileStream was quite unfriendly, so I started adding
Dolphin-compatible methods, at least to a point. My primary goal is
to
have errors arise when appropriate vs. waiting for
potentially/apparently disconnected collateral damage to occur.
I have the impression that FileStream should be patched but also
just rewritten from scratch. I was discussing with mike about the use of
URI in sophie. He told me that they got a really nice solution which
was offering
cross platform real portability
Dolphin's semantics will not be completely appropriate for Squeak,
because there are OS (in)dependencies to consider. I want that to
work
well so I can treat my Redmond allergy.
I urge Smalltalkers to avoid #next and #next: like the plague, but one
could always use my changes and ignore the replacements. A very
incomplete but gradually evolving change set is available on request.
ok good to know.
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