PositionnableStream>>back behavior?

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Fri Apr 6 15:39:33 UTC 2007


On 6-Apr-07, at 8:08 AM, Damien Cassou wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I don't really understand why #back goes two step backward:
>
> stream := ReadStream on: 'abc' copy.
> stream next.
> stream next.
> stream peek.       ==> $c
> stream back.       ==> $a
>
> If the following character is $c then the previous one should be $b.
> Don't you think so?

If current char is$b, then next is $c and previous is $a.


tim
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