On Saturday 30 Oct 2010 4:20:46 pm Hannes Hirzel 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.

Looks like a typo. I suppose what was meant was: 'myfile.txt' asFileName asFileStream contents

where asFileStream is a monkey patch on String:

String>>asFileStream ^FileStream readOnlyFileNamed: self.

Subbu