On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Andres Valloud wrote:

Hi.

Problem: there's contents in ReadWriteStream, but it doesn't work in FileStream because some variables are constantly nil in FileStream. But FileStream provides contentsOfEntireFile to solve the problem.

What do I think about it: polymorphism is broken.

Proposed solution: rename the method contentsOfEntireFile in FileStream to contents, and fix its 48 senders.

Word of warning: I'll bet that there are more than 48 senders. Several add-ons use #contentsOfEntireFile, and I believe some "template" code (e.g., for PWS) does as well.

So, caution is warrented wrt wholesale removal, though I do approve of the change, in general.

(It also irks me that it's MIMEDocument>>content, not contents ;))

Cheers, Bijan Parsia.