[Glass] What is this chunk of memory prefixing my bytearray?

[Mariano Martinez Peck]

Indeed, it was that Martin. Weird, I never saw something like that :)

Thanks!


On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 5:06 AM, Martin McClure <
martin.mcclure at gemtalksystems.com> wrote:

> On 11/19/2013 06:44 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I found something weird today. If you inspect this:
>>
>>   ( ServerFileDirectory on: '/dev/random') directoryEntry readStreamDo:
>> [ :s |
>> s binary.
>> (s next: 20) asByteArray ]
>> You get something like:
>>
>>   Ý5öyoÓT¾àiwð¯p… óž“è( 221, 53, 246, 121, 111, 211, 84, 190, 224, 105,
>> 119, 240, 175, 112, 133, 17, 243, 158, 147, 232)
>>
>> If you inspect it, the ByteArray is correctly size 20, and each element
>> seems correct. But what are those weird characters I see in the
>> inspector/print?
>>
>
> Well, they look like they're the byte array printed as a string of
> characters. Certainly the second byte, 53, is the codepoint of $5.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Martin
>
>


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