[boost] Re: Review of Daryle Walker's "More IO" library beginstoday, August 21, 2004.

From: Pavel Vozenilek (pavel_vozenilek_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-24 03:45:29

"Jonathan Turkanis" wrote:

> > 25. possible features: there may be more features in library:
>
> I'm planning to write a review of More IO later this week. For now,
> I'd like to mention that I have an iostreams library up for review
> later this month or early in September which allows streams and stream
> buffers to be constructed by combining simple components called
> Sources, Sinks, InputFilters and OutputFilters. (See
> http://tinyurl.com/3m6ur) I think this is a better approach than
> accumulating a bunch of special purpose stream buffers implemented
> from scratch.
>
> I think Daryle's pointer streams and null streams are useful, and may
> vote for their acceptance, but believe they would be better
> implemented as Sources and Sinks. Most of your ideas below also fit
> easily into this framework.
>
I'm interested and will look into this.
/Pavel