But is there a common behavior which is found in many other Smalltalk dialect?

2007/5/12, J J <azreal1977 at hotmail.com>:
> If the standard doesn't agree then I would go with what everyone else does
> so at least we are compatible.
>
>
> >From: "Damien Cassou" <damien.cassou at gmail.com>
> >Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers
> >list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> >To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers
> >list"<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> >Subject: Re: [Ann] Nile 0.8.0 available
> >Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 09:06:37 +0200
> >
> >Hi Bill,
> >
> >2007/5/12, Bill Schwab <BSchwab at anest.ufl.edu>:
> >>The pipe/composition features are interesting.  I would strongly urge
> >>you to have something like
> >>
> >>    | in |
> >>    in := NSReadableCollectionStream on:'hello'.
> >>    in next:20.
> >>
> >>signal an error.  #nextAvailable:20 would answer a truncated string w/o
> >>error.  Since you are creating new stream classes, IMHO, it makes sense
> >>to match their behavior to the other major dialects.
> >
> >I already asked a few month ago what would be the best solution to
> >handle errors. Nobody agreed. So I decided to follow the ANSI
> >standard: problems like this are unspecified. Even the standard guys
> >were unable to make any decision :-(
> >
> >Now, if people start to agree on a specific behavior, I would really like
> >that.
> >
> >What do other people think?
> >
> >--
> >Damien Cassou
> >
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Damien Cassou