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10630 :: Should closing a stream assign nil?

• mszs (orginal) [2023-11-13T21:04:11+01:00] view original

  I was kind of expecting close to assign nil to the stream being closed. What is the rationale for not doing this?

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• Araq (orginal) [2023-11-13T21:14:47+01:00] view original

  The rationale for not doing it is that it doesn't help as you can have many variables pointing to the same stream which would not be nil'ed out.

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