[ANSI-Smalltalk] Smalltalk file streams

[Eliot Miranda]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Richard O'Keefe <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz> wrote:

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> On 16 Oct 2008, at 8:16 pm, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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>>  (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?
>>>
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>> Simple: PEBKAC.
>>
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> What the dickens does PEBKAC mean?


Google and Wikipedia are your friends...
PEBKAC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEBKAC>


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