I am refereshing my familiarity with streams by looking at
PharoByExample1 which says...
"You have to remember that each time you open a stream on a file, you
have to close it too."
Does that mean if in Workspace I iteratively develop some code to
process a stream, so that I am continually running...
myStream := FileStream readOnlyFileNamed: 'C:\test.txt.
...so that 'myStream' is overwritten each time such that I lose
reference to the previous stream, and I am no longer able to send #close
to it,
am I creating a memory leak in my image ?
My prior assumption has been that once 'myStream' drops the reference
drops to the previous stream, garbage collection would take care of
'everything'.
cheers -ben
