lex at cc.gatech.edu wrote:
>Ned Konz <ned at bike-nomad.com> wrote:
>>  All previously-existing code expected that text streams would return
>>  Characters that had a 1:1 mapping to the bytes in the file.
>
>Actually, there are CrLfFileStream and TextFile, both of which do not
>necessarily give 1:1 mappings.  Those of us that use one of these
>classes think your discussions about CR versus LF are amusing.  Those of
>you who do not use these classes think our complaints about the
>incorrect 1:1 assumption are amusing. 
>
>Anyway, the point is that those of us who sufered through using
>CrLfFileStream in a 1:1-assuming world, have already managed to get some
>things in Squeak fixed over time.  Also, I can tell you that it's not
>too bad to just switch over like this.  It's easy to fix the individual
>broken cases; it is just frustrating that the upstream developers
>frequently don't really care.
>
>So, I vote to dive on into the icy stream.  Most things will work, and
>most things that break will be easy to fix, and in the long run, much
>less broken code will be written.
>
>
>Lex

I'll second that
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