[ANSI-Smalltalk] #contents on WriteStream

[Bruce Badger]

On 17/10/2008, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu.org> wrote:
> Bruce Badger wrote:
>  > On 17/10/2008, Richard O'Keefe <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
>  >> What I don't understand is why WriteStream and ReadWriteStream
>  >>  should do _different_ things with #contents.
>  >
>  > Because a write stream modifies contents and a read stream does not.
>  > I imagine what I would find in a file if I closed a file stream at a
>  > given point.  In Paolo's example, I would find 'ab' in the file.
>
>
> Actually, without an explicit #truncate you wouldn't...

Oooooh - now that *is* confusing

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