> On 23 Jul 2018, at 11:13, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> wrote:
>
> On 23 July 2018 at 15:38, Pavel Krivanek <pavel.kriva...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've prepared a draft of a short document that should help you with the
>> transition to the "new" file streams API in Pharo 7.
>>
>> https://github.com/pavel-krivanek/pharoMaterials/blob/master/Filestreams.MD
>>
>> Pull requests are welcome.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -- Pavel
>>
>>
>>
>
> Some discussion prior to any pull request (and while I'm away from
> Pharo machine)
>
> I like all the new code examples until "Write a UTF-8 text to STDOUT"
> and I wonder "Stdio stdout writeStreamDo: [ :stream | stream
> nextPutAll: 'a ≠ b' ]" would better fit the pattern of the other new
> code.
> (presuming "Stdio stdout" returns a FileReference, oherwise maybe
> "Stdio stdoutRef" or "Stdio stdout asFileReference")
Stdio stdout and friends just return a binary stream, hence they need wrapping
for encoding.
Maybe
Stdio stdoutAsText
might be an idea, but this is so uncommon that I am not sure this is a good
idea.
> Under "Positionable streams", rather than needing "3 timesRepeat: [
> stream next ]"
> would it be worth having #utf8position: to more intention revealing?
no more new API, please.
Positioning in a variable length encoded stream is plain hard - see my other
mail.
> cheers -ben
>
