On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 03:38:34PM +0100, nicolas cellier wrote:
> Le Dimanche 12 Février 2006 15:19, David T. Lewis a écrit :
> >
> > It's a feature. It just means that you can set the file position beyond
> > end of file, at which point it is no longer "atEnd". You can use
> > #setToEnd to position the file pointer to the actual end of file.
> 
> Maybe it's a usefull feature for files opened for writing, I don't know.
> 
> But Martin had its file opened readOnly, in which case such a feature makes no 
> sense.
> 
> What would file next will answer? an infinite collection of zeros like a null 
> stream ?

It answers nil.

> 
> Everybody would prefer getting an Exception rather than this strange behavior 
> i guess.

Agreed.

Note the squeak file system code was written many years before the
introduction of exceptions, and there is wide agreement that it is
due for some rework. There is a team forming up to look into this:

 <http://www.squeak.org/Community/Teams/>
 <http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2006-January/099050.html>

Dave