[BUG] (FileStream isAFileNamed: '') returns true

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Tue Apr 23 05:15:39 UTC 2002


Oddly enough,

FileStream isAFileNamed: ''

returns true.
This is because

StandardFileStream new open: (FileStream fullName: '') forWrite: 
false.

returns a non-nil file. And reading from it returns empty strings (!).

There isn't a file named '' in the current directory, of course.

Recent CVS VM from SourceForge. Linux. 3.2g image.
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