Bert Freudenberg wrote:
Do I need to worry about closing a WriteStream? Currently I am working like this:
buildStatementFor: anObject | statement | statement := String new writeStream. [ statement nextPutAll: 'bla bla bla'. ^ statement contents. ] ensure: statement close
Not for an in-memory write stream no.
Note you're missing the block brackets around [statement close].
Also, since this is such a common task, the shorter version is
buildStatementFor: anObject
^String streamContents: [:statement | statement nextPutAll: 'bla bla bla']
Take a look at #streamContents: which does exactly the same as your code, but you can never get it wrong again ;)
Hi Bert,
Thanks. Actually that was (of course!) just an off-the-cuff pseudocode I posted and not a copy-and-paste. My email client does not have a syntax checker, unfortunately :)
#streamContents: indeed seems to be what I need.
- TimJ