[ANSI-Smalltalk] #contents on <collectionStream>

[Paolo Bonzini]

cstb wrote:
> At 12:14 AM 10/16/2008, Paulo wrote:
>> In the standard, the definition of #contents for <WriteStream> comes
>>from <collectionStream> so that this:
>>   (WriteStream on: String new) nextPutAll: 'abc'; skip: -1;
>>      contents
>>
>> should "return a collection that contains the receiver's past and future
>> sequence values, in order", i.e. 'abc'.  To me it makes more sense that
>> it returns 'ab'.
>>
>> Opinions?
> 
> 
> It would be nice if the standard was 
> for <collectionStream> to provide both
> 
>         contents        ->      upTo: readLimit
> and
>         currentContents ->      upTo: position

Let's try however to follow current practice and not invent new selectors.

Paolo