ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
> I was browsing the senders of respondsTo: (another implicit use of MOP 
> entry that is abuse in Squeak) and
> I found a lot of repeting sequence
> 
> 	(stream respondsTo: #binary) ifTrue: [ stream binary] .
> 	
> 	(stream respondsTo: #close) ifTrue: [stream close].
> 
> Wonderful illustration of lack of common protocol....I was wondering 
> why it was like that?
> why all the streams cannot get close (even if per defaut closing a 
> stream that could not get close woudl do nothing a.k.a NullObject).
> 

Nowadays, such methods do indeed exist.  So it would be nice to start
getting rid of these respondsTo's.

Also, #close is required by ANSI.


-Lex