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1795 :: Stream writeBytes

• JamesWirth (orginal) [2015-11-11T22:35:32+01:00] view original

  I see a writeBytes proc for File-s but need one for Stream-s

  A workaround was:

  But that seems kinda low level.

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• Araq (orginal) [2015-11-11T23:25:21+01:00] view original

  streams.writeData is low level and if you operate on byte level you operate on a low level so I don't see any problem here.

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• JamesWirth (orginal) [2015-11-12T02:20:27+01:00] view original

  So a safer but slower alternative would be:

  for elem in data:
      strm.write(elem)
  Run

  Java sure did make me into a Nervous Nellie

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• kirbyfan64sos (orginal) [2015-11-12T04:22:48+01:00] view original

  How did Java make you nervous? There are null pointer errors every other direction... ;)

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• JamesWirth (orginal) [2015-11-13T21:02:37+01:00] view original

  Yes, but the Java RTE always caught them, slapped my hand and said "don't eat that, we don't know where it has been"

  I had thought that using addr(...) opened your code up to buffer overrun exploits if you were not really careful.

  Or does the nim runtime check all pointer usage???

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