.NET streams, passing streams between objects, best practices (C#)

Question

I\'m currently writing a little toy assembler in c# (going through the elements of computing systems book. Really good book by the way.)

The assembler takes an input

Answer 1

Overall, I agree with the previous comments. However if your model doesn't fit that, you could do what Microsoft did with the XML Writer: It accepts an XMLWriterSettings parameter when you instance it, and one of the properties of the settings object describes whether the writer should close the underlying stream when the writer is disposed.