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DummyStream
  category: System-Object Storage
  superclass: Stream
  subclasses:

The purpose of this class is to absorb all steam messages and do nothing. This is so ReferenceStream can pretend to write on it while traversing all objects it would normally write. We need to know what those object are. 8/17/96 tk

instance methods
  as yet unclassified
  binary
close
nextInt32Put:
nextNumber:put:
nextPut:
nextPutAll:
nextStringPut:
originalContents
position
position:
skip:
subclassResponsibility

class methods
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instance methods
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binary

do nothing
 

close

do nothing
 

nextInt32Put:

do nothing
 

nextNumber:put:

do nothing
 

nextPut:

do nothing
 

nextPutAll:

do nothing
 

nextStringPut:

do nothing
 

originalContents
 

position

Return any random number. Here is where the real lying begins. We are a DummyStream afterall. 8/17/96 tk
 

position:

Pretend to position wherever the caller says!
 

skip:

Do nothing.
 

subclassResponsibility

Do nothing. Most messages to class Stream are defined as subclassResponsibility. Just accept them. 8/17/96 tk

class methods
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on:

Return a new DummyStream instance, ignoring the argument.