Hi, One more comment on this thread...
Jeffrey Horner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> When I originally implemented connections in R 1.2.0, I followed the model >> in the 'Green Book' closely. There were a number of features that forced >> a particular implementation, and one was getConnection() that allows one >> to recreate a connection object from a number. > [...] >> Another issue is that the current connection objects can be saved and >> restored but refer to a global table that is session-specific so they lose >> their meaning (and perhaps gain an unintended one). >> >> What I suspect is that very few users are aware of the Green Book >> description and so we have freedom to make some substantial changes >> to the implementation. Both issues suggest that connection objects should >> be based on external pointers (which did not exist way back in 1.2.0). > > Sounds great! I would also like to see the following interface (all or > in parts) added for working with connections from C. This is an update > to the patch I created here: > > http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=developers:r_connections_api I wanted to voice a "me too" for wanting to see an interface added for working with connections from C in package code. There are a number of places where this would be useful and provide cleaner solution than what is possible today. The proposed interface looks useful. + seth -- Seth Falcon | Computational Biology | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center http://bioconductor.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
