Andreas Raab wrote:
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Same thing for Celeste - it is possible to
> break the invariant in the creation method and whoever wrote that method
> might as well not have used a SortedCollection to begin with. After all,
> what's the point in using a class with a specific invariant if the first
> thing you do is to break it?! Show me that it's slow and I'll show you
> how to make it fast ;-)

Celeste seems a non brainer to me, since the method
  IndexFile>>readFrom: aStream messageFile: messageFile
reads from a Stream generated by reading in a file (btw: it is readed in
entirely and then there is made a ReadStream on its contents...).

Greetings,

Stephan

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