Squeak 3.4: should we change to CrLfFileStream as default?

Michael Rueger m.rueger at acm.org
Sat Nov 16 23:10:52 UTC 2002


Ned Konz wrote:

>>How about folding the functionality into FileStream itself? In
>>situations where you want to force specific line endings, you can
>>still say so.
> 
> 
> Perhaps.
> 
> Unfortunately, the implementation of CrLfFileStream still has some 
> overhead on both reads and writes if it's in binary mode.

Maybe we should wait with any decision until we a better idea if and how 
we might want to refactor the Stream classes anyways.

Flow does it and there are also a few experimental codelets sitting on 
my hard drive, right next to the directory and http rewrite ;-)

Michael





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