right - it's unfortunate that FileStream inherits from Stream because 
everyone *knows* that <position> is what it says it is. Until it isn't.


On 1/22/18 7:44 AM, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
>>>
>>>    can you add a comment to the method near the sending of position 
>>> that explains?  e.g. "send position so that this works with 
>>> multibyte rncodings such as UTF8".  Otherwise the temptation may 
>>> remain to repeat the mistake.
>>
>> That's one reason why I always prefer accessors over direct inst-vars ;P
>
> The sole reason the accessor must be used in this case is the misuse 
> of inheritance. 

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