1.79.1 FileStream class: file-in

fileIn: aFileName

File in the aFileName file. During a file in operation, global variables (starting with an uppercase letter) that are not declared yet don’t yield an ‘unknown variable’ error. Instead, they are defined as nil in the ‘Undeclared’ dictionary (a global variable residing in Smalltalk). As soon as you add the variable to a namespace (for example by creating a class) the Association will be removed from Undeclared and reused in the namespace, so that the old references will automagically point to the new value.

fileIn: aFileName ifMissing: aSymbol

Conditionally do a file in, only if the key (often a class) specified by ’aSymbol’ is not present in the Smalltalk system dictionary already. During a file in operation, global variables (starting with an uppercase letter) that are not declared don’t yield an ‘unknown variable’ error. Instead, they are defined as nil in the ‘Undeclared’ dictionary (a global variable residing in Smalltalk). As soon as you add the variable to a namespace (for example by creating a class) the Association will be removed from Undeclared and reused in the namespace, so that the old references will automagically point to the new value.

fileIn: aFileName ifTrue: aBoolean

Conditionally do a file in, only if the supplied boolean is true. During a file in operation, global variables (starting with an uppercase letter) that are not declared don’t yield an ‘unknown variable’ error. Instead, they are defined as nil in the ‘Undeclared’ dictionary (a global variable residing in Smalltalk). As soon as you add the variable to a namespace (for example by creating a class) the Association will be removed from Undeclared and reused in the namespace, so that the old references will automagically point to the new value.

fileIn: aFileName line: lineInteger from: realFileName at: aCharPos

File in the aFileName file giving errors such as if it was loaded from the given line, file name and starting position (instead of 1).

generateMakefileOnto: aStream

Generate a make file for the file-ins since record was last set to true. Store it on aStream

initialize

Private - Initialize the receiver’s class variables

record: recordFlag

Set whether Smalltalk should record information about nested file-ins. When recording is enabled, use #generateMakefileOnto: to automatically generate a valid makefile for the intervening file-ins.

require: assoc

Conditionally do a file in from the value of assoc, only if the key of assoc is not present in the Smalltalk system dictionary already. During a file in operation, global variables (starting with an uppercase letter) that are not declared don’t yield an ‘unknown variable’ error. Instead, they are defined as nil in the ‘Undeclared’ dictionary (a global variable residing in Smalltalk). As soon as you add the variable to a namespace (for example by creating a class) the Association will be removed from Undeclared and reused in the namespace, so that the old references will automagically point to the new value.

verbose: verboseFlag

Set whether Smalltalk should output debugging messages when filing in