<div dir="ltr"><div>Since (String new readStream next: 4) answers an empty string, so at least this seem consistent with the rest...<br></div>Some dialects have something like nextAvailable: 4 for this behavior and let next: 4 raise an exception, but not Squeak.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-10-07 21:41 GMT+02:00 Chris Muller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:asqueaker@gmail.com" target="_blank">asqueaker@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Assuming its 'shouldSignal' is true, if I say:<br>
<br>
mySocketStream next: 4<br>
<br>
shouldn't I be guaranteed either 4 bytes of data, or an exception<br>
(Timeout or ConnectionClosed)? But, never less than 4 bytes of data,<br>
right?<br>
<br>
Over the last few weeks I have been running very heavy networking and<br>
noticed several times "SocketStream>>#next: 4" returning me either an<br>
empty Array or nil. I've seen it more than once but can't reproduce<br>
it.<br>
<br>
Wouldn't that have to be a bug?<br>
<br>
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