From: Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>
Date: 2001-12-20T21:09:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29099] Re: Stream?

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 03:13:23 GMT, chad fowler <chadfowler@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>You can just define the extra methods that you'd be
>using on the file on the String.  I've been doing that
>lately just doing one-offs when I need it.  It doesn't
>usually present too much extra work.  You can either
>create the extra methods on the String class, or of
>course on the specific String instance in question.

Yes, thanks. It's not too hard to do. We just wanted to be sure we
weren't missing something somewhere. Stream in Smalltalk is a wrapper
on the collection, but I'm not sure why they did it that way. It does
have a certain packaging niceness that way.

Thanks again,

Ronald E Jeffries
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