On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 22:49 -0700, Erick Tryzelaar wrote:
> skaller wrote:

> Second, Cstdio currently only provides a "FILE" type, which nothing 
> currently uses for an interface, so it's another thing that doesn't need 
> exposure (in my opinion). 

This may change. It is just slackness. The whole 'IO' system
needs to be thought about.

A generic Felix policy would be:

(a) provide native file IO (unix fd, windows handles)
(b) provide C level file IO (FILE*)
(c) provides C++ level file IO (iostreams)
(d) provide asynchronous native IO
(e) provide a unifying streams concept of some kind

The critical thing here is that whilst C++ streams
look appealing .. they're actually useless, because
the blocking operations cannot be control inverted.


-- 
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net


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