Strange behavior of read file

[Jesse Phillips]

On Tuesday, 27 August 2013 at 17:14:23 UTC, Paul Jurczak wrote:
> Correction to my initial post:
>
> I oversimplified the code example by snipping too much of 
> context. Here is an example, which fails both on Windows and 
> Linux:

I get a range violation in Linux, but that is to be expected 
since my file is empty. Removing the file gives the file not 
found exception.