Why InputStream Design Is Wrong
It's not just about InputSteam, this class is a good example of a bad design. I'm talking about three overloaded methods read(). I've mentioned this problem in Section 2.9 of Elegant Objects. In a few words, I strongly believe that interfaces must be "functionality poor." InputStream should have been an interface in the first place and it should have had a single method read(byte[]). Then if its authors wanted to give us extra functionality, they should have created supplementary "smart" classes.
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