[boost] Re: iostreams library review

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-06-02 17:39:05

"Jonathan Turkanis" <technews_at_[hidden]> writes:

> The caveat is that seeking with respect to stream positions -- i.e.
> values of type traits_type::pos_type rather than
> traits_type::off_type -- only works as expected for positions which
> are equivalent to integral offsets. 

You lost me here.  What positions aren't?

> Free ranging random access doesn't make much sense in multibyte
> streams, anyway. There's a more limited type of random access which
> is possible in multibyte streams, in which you can save a position
> and go back to it later. I've chosen not to support this, however.

Do you mean variable-length-character streams?  I definitely want to
do regular random access on streams of wchar_t, which I suppose are
"multibyte".

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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