Hi Daniel,

Okay I give up. There is no chance I can convince you and I can see that the
discussion will have no results anyway except from reinforcing existing
preconceptions. However,

> No comparison is a replacement for an argument. That A did it doesn't
> mean it is reasonable when B does it. The question is should the
> behavior of Streams be symmetric for reading and writing, or "robust"
> and on that you've made no arguments, and replied to none of mine.

here is what I wrote specifically to that argument:

> However, I can be convinced by the consistency argument, e.g., once  the
> stream decided on a line end convention it should stick to it. Not hard to
> do, btw, you would only loose some of the "robustness" Ned was talking
> about. Oh, and modes - you are aware that you can ask a file stream for
the
> line end convention, are you?

Cheers,
  - Andreas