FileStream and TextConverters etc (reposting from another thread)

goran at krampe.se goran at krampe.se
Tue Apr 11 13:17:59 UTC 2006


Hi!

Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
> See http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/3342

Ah. Right, had forgotten about that. Nice.

> Cheers,
>    - Andreas
> 
> PS. The above is a way of saying KISS. [Standard|CrLf|MultiByte] 
> FileStream is *heavily* overloaded with lots of dependent 
> responsibilities and the best way to deal with these issues top to 
> bottom is to refactor the dimensions somewhat - for example by making 
> "text writing" (lf conversion, encodings) an independent dimension from 
> "byte writing" (file i/o).

Sounds right to me. So essentially I assume you are saying we should
ideally "clean" the FileStream tree so that it doesn't overlap with
TextFile?

regards, Göran



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