Surely, but not what Randal implies in terms of streams I suppose.... The idiom implies that a file stream is created and that I get the content of a file -- not the content of the file name.
--Hannes On 10/30/10, Peter Hugosson-Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > The result you got is what I would have expected too. > > -- > Cheers, > Peter > > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Hannes Hirzel > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hello >> >> Randal Schwartz writes in his blog >> >> http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/writestreams-of-consciousness-going-to-xtream >> about streams citing Derek Williams http://derekwilliams.us/?p=1411 >> >> He gives the following as an example of elegant syntax of Smalltalk >> >> 'myfile.txt' asFileName readStream contents >> >> This does not work in Squeak nor in Pharo. >> >> It produces a ReadStream on the contents of the _String_ 'myfile.txt'. >> i.e. the ByteString with 10 elements. >> >> Comments? >> >> Regards >> >> Hannes >> >
