On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 04:10:46PM +0100, Benjamin Geer wrote:
> This is why I'm pleading for a layered API, so that character encoding, 
> buffering, compression, encryption, and any other optional processing 

But you do not need a Java-esque API to do that.  All you need is a
standardized File object.  You could instantiate one of these by opening
a file.  Or perhaps by passing an existing object to the initializer for
a gzip decompressor or a Unicode processor.  ExtLib in CVS has one
approach to this.  I'd prefer to use OCaml's object system myself.

Perhaps I'll write up a proof-of-concept for missinglib...

-- John

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