Make IOSink implement StringSink

sdk/lib/io/file.dart

Index: sdk/lib/io/file.dart
diff --git a/sdk/lib/io/file.dart b/sdk/lib/io/file.dart
index 383cd5b2ebc8a2287fccbbabf42f9b0005e41509..1bfcb6cc42022f203a06db3c71036ef5a321d106 100644
--- a/sdk/lib/io/file.dart
+++ b/sdk/lib/io/file.dart
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
+// Copyright (c) 2013, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
 // for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
 // BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
@@ -174,8 +174,14 @@ abstract class File extends FileSystemEntity {
    * * [FileMode.WRITE]: truncates the file to length zero.
    * * [FileMode.APPEND]: sets the initial write position to the end
    *   of the file.
+   *
+   *  When writing strings through the returned [IOSink] the encoding
+   *  specified using [encoding] will be used. The returned [IOSink]
+   *  has an [:encoding:] property which can be changed after the
+   *  [IOSink] has been created.
    */
-  IOSink<File> openWrite([FileMode mode = FileMode.WRITE]);
+  IOSink<File> openWrite({FileMode mode: FileMode.WRITE,
+                          Encoding encoding: Encoding.UTF_8});

[Anders Johnsen, 2013/03/07 16:53:49]

Thinking about this API change, I'm EXTREMELY excited about stuff like this.
This is a move in the right direction! :) Thanks Soeren!

[Søren Gjesse, 2013/03/08 09:47:46]

Thanks.

 
   /**
    * Read the entire file contents as a list of bytes. Returns a