Re: [boost] [rfc] I/O Library Design

From: Marcus Lindblom (macke_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-20 03:32:01

Steven Siloti wrote:
> Streaming I/O could be done with iterators. Conceptually streams can be 
> thought of as simply being specialized iterators with different syntax. 
> For example, a socket class would present a pair of iterators, one Input 
> Iterator and one Output Iterator (or maybe just a single Forward 
> Iterator?). They would be theoretically never-ending but the Input 
> Iterator would end up equal to some end iterator when the socket has 
> been closed and there is no further data available.
>   
Short question:  Wouldn't you need to handle block transfers with some 
"regular" function anyway , since you do not want to fetch each byte via 
an iterator dereference? Or do you assume buffering, etc within the 
iterator?

Cheers,
/Marcus