Re: File API to separate reading from files

On Aug 19, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Arve Bersvendsen wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:21:54 +0200, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>  
> 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*?

They are independent proposals. Of course, it is still possible that  
the next WD combine the two. I wouldn't like that too much, but that's  
just me.

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Received on Wednesday, 19 August 2009 22:12:05 UTC