[Bug] EncodedStream>>contents

>Heh, I found the same problem last fall when I changed how we build images
>from scratch and forgot to include Wave, which we used to have only in our
>dev images, but not runtimes :) I recall it wasn't easy to find either... I
>say the fix should be in base, it's a radically different behavior and
>should be consolidated at some point.
>
>Cheers!
>
>-Boris
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Christian Haider [mailto:[hidden email]]
>Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 7:24 AM
>To: 'VWNC List'
>Subject: [Bug] EncodedStream>>contents
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>A bug found me during packaging:
>
>wst := (ByteArray new withEncoding: #ASCII) writeStream.
>wst nextPutAll: 'Hello World!'.
>wst contents
>
>yields an empty ByteString in the vanilla image.
>
>But, if you load [Wave-Server-Base], you get an override of the method which
>fixes the bug...
>I think the fix should be in the base.
>
>My runtime does not include Wave, thats how it hit me - Just an example how
>overrides can lead to tricky bugs :-(