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ST 4U 315: Writing Collections with Streams

November 30, 2012 10:09:51.520

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at using Streams to write collections (not Strings). If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:

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Today we'll have a look at writing arbitrary collections via streams. In Smalltalk, streams can be used to write collections of objects (not just strings). For example: here we set up a ByteArray, and then write to it:


collection := ByteArray new: 5.
stream := collection writeStream.
stream nextPut: 10.
stream nextPut: 55.
stream nextPut: 10000.
^collection

If you inspect the results, you'll see the ByteArray #[10 55 0 0 0]. You can also create collections of disparate objects:


collection2 := Array new: 5.
stream2 := collection2 writeStream.
stream2 nextPut: 'one'.
stream2 nextPut: (1/3).
^collection2

Inspecting the results will give you the collection #('one' (1/3)) - the last object, if you look in the inspector, is a fraction.

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