On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:21:54 +0200, Jonas Sicking <[email protected]> wrote:
I do like the idea of having a stream primitive. I think we'll need that for other things in the future such as reading data from a camera, or reading data from a microphone.
I quite concur, and for the widget space, actually writing data is a real use-case.
However I'm not convinced that we should force people to use streams to deal with the simple use case of reading data from a file. In 95% (if not more) of the cases the user simply wants to get the contents of the file, and so forcing them to do that using:
Does the presence of an IOStream primitive exclude getAs*? -- Arve Bersvendsen Opera Software ASA, http://www.opera.com/
