RE: [boost] Re: IOStreams formal review start

From: Reece Dunn (msclrhd_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-06 06:36:39

Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
>I'm starting to think it would be very useful to have a Flushable concept, 
>which
>would allow components to advertise that they can send all buffered data
>downstream at any time. I haven't given it much though yet, but I think it 
>would
>allow OuputFilters to be inserted and removed in the middle of processing a
>character sequence, as Dietmar suggested.

This would make it possible to write a processor for a PDF file that 
contains several 'stream' objects, each with different filters (LZW 
compression, ASCII85 encoding, JPEG images, etc.).

Regards,
Reece

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