I think this is the kind of place where it would make sense to use the
object system.  That is, in addition to the low-level in_channel and
out_channel, which essentially serve as proxies for unix file-descriptor
based channels, there should be I/O objects with a standard signature
for files, strings, buffers, etc.  I actually have done a simple version
of this for myself as part of the SKS project, but I think something
along these lines would be useful as a standard part of ocaml, including
integration with printf and other places in the standard library that
use I/O.  

As for your precise question, I don't myself know of any way to convert
a Buffer.t to an i/o channel.

y

On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 03:05, Chris Hecker wrote:
> Is there any way to do something similar to the C++ string stream stuff, 
> where you treat strings (or Buffer.t's) as in_ or out_channels?  The Format 
> module has a formatter for strings, but there doesn't seem to be a way to 
> do it with Pervasives.  Something like:
> 
> val out_channel_of_buffer : Buffer.t -> out_channel
> val in_channel_of_buffer : Buffer.t -> in_channel
> 
> and maybe _of_string versions too (probably necessary because you can't 
> convert a string to a buffer for the in_channel), which fill up and don't 
> expand.
> 
> It'd be very useful to be able to do this.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
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