[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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