EndOfStream unused
Paolo Bonzini
bonzini at gnu.org
Thu Nov 8 17:22:04 UTC 2007
> Stream>>next
> ^ self nextIfAtEnd: [ ^ nil ]
>
> Stream>>nextIfAtEnd: anEndBlock
If you don't care about the cost of creating a block (and on "real"
closure implementations blocks that return are the most expensive ones),
you will just use #do:. This will kill performance 100 times more than
an EndOfStream notification.
Smalltalk people sometimes seem to be allergic to thinking out of the
box. #at:ifAbsent:-like things have a place, exception handling has a
similar but different place. Nobody is proposing to have millions of
exceptions as in Java.
Paolo
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