More on WriteStream>>on:
Klaus D. Witzel
klaus.witzel at cobss.com
Wed Feb 14 18:14:20 UTC 2007
Hi Roel,
on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:47:05 +0100, you wrote:
> Could somebody who likes the fact that WriteStream modifies the
> collection passed with #on: give me an actual example where this
> behaviour is actually desirable/useful (I am not talking about
> ReadStream here) ?
>
>
> Otherwise put, why should we not change the implementation of #on: in
> Stream to do:
>
> on: aCollection
I would be strongly against such a copy; also a condition like
(aCollection isString) would be way too much. The literal (which people
seem to believe is a constant, it is *not*, it's a *literal* object) can
only be decided by the *caller* to be constant. Besides of that:
performance ...
Isn't #writeStream a very meaningful English wording? "caution, we are the
*writers*, we *write* when you ask for #writeStream".
/Klaus
> .... aCollection copy .....
>
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> --
> Roel
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