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

From: Daryle Walker (darylew_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-28 01:47:50

On 8/24/04 2:18 AM, "Jonathan Turkanis" <technews_at_[hidden]> wrote:

[SNIP]
> 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.
> 
> For example, using my library, a null_buf and null_ostream can be
> defined as follows:
> 
>     struct null_sink : boost::io::sink {
>         void write(char*, std::streamsize) { }
>     };
>     typedef boost::io::streambuf_facade<null_sink> null_buf;
>     typedef boost::io::stream_facade<null_sink> null_ostream;
> 
> Pointer streams can be defined like so:
> 
>     typedef boost::io::streambuf_facade<boost::io::array_resource>
>             pointerbuf;
>     typedef boost::io::stream_facade<boost::io::array_resource>
>             pointerstream;
[TRUNCATE the more complicated ideas]

But why go through all the trouble to forcing an idea through a framework,
which is built on top of the Standard I/O framework, when the idea is simple
enough to go through the Standard framework directly?

-- 
Daryle Walker
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darylew AT hotmail DOT com