On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 07:27:32PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i said: > > no typechecking. > > and this is the part that really bugs me. endless use of void*; if > you get it wrong, who knows what'll happen. the compiler certainly > can't help. Has anybody ever thought about extending the usual file-based interfaces with a typechecking ? I'm not even asking about implementations, more about ideas: you've got /foo/bar/file and you want it to be clearly identified as a receptacle for a certain type of data -- how would you do that (especially with an additional constraint that nobody reads man pages) ?
Thanks, Roman.
