As I wanted to use the `with` statement on Iterators in order to experiment with #1735, I realized that neither them not stream are usable with `with` since they lack the required methods.
Pull-Request: #1742
Reviewed-by: Lucas Bajolet <r4pass@hotmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexis Laferrière <alexis.laf@xymus.net>
# close the stream
fun close is abstract
+
+ # Pre-work hook.
+ #
+ # Used to inform `self` that operations will start.
+ # Specific streams can use this to prepare some resources.
+ #
+ # Is automatically invoked at the beginning of `with` structures.
+ #
+ # Do nothing by default.
+ fun start do end
+
+ # Post-work hook.
+ #
+ # Used to inform `self` that the operations are over.
+ # Specific streams can use this to free some resources.
+ #
+ # Is automatically invoked at the end of `woth` structures.
+ #
+ # call `close` by default.
+ fun finish do close
end
# A `Stream` that can be read from
end
end
+redef class Bytes
+ super Writable
+ redef fun write_to(s) do s.write_bytes(self)
+
+ redef fun write_to_string do return to_s
+end
+
redef class Text
super Writable
redef fun write_to(stream) do stream.write(self)