[ANSI-Smalltalk] Smalltalk file streams

Richard O'Keefe ok at cs.otago.ac.nz
Fri Oct 17 01:32:41 BST 2008


On 16 Oct 2008, at 8:16 pm, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

>
>> (1) #contents is defined for file streams.
>>    There is no permission granted for implementations to give
>>    up and say "this is too hard" ("Errors" is "None" in section
>>    5.10.1.1).
>>
>>    -- How do you handle #contents for /dev/tty?  Read and preserve
>>       every character until the machine is powered off, then send
>>       the results back in a time machine?
>
> Simple: PEBKAC.

What the dickens does PEBKAC mean?




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