On Die, 2004-04-27 at 18:00, Yamagata Yoriyuki wrote:
> From: Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>
> Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Common IO structure
> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 22:56:59 +0200
> 
> > Of course, sharing the same method name is possible, in ocamlnet we have
> > e.g. output_char where camomile has put_char. So the question is whether
> > this is worth the effort.
> 
> Camomile uses "put", not "put_char", because channels are polymorphic.

Oh sorry, I just remembered it wrong.

> If ocamlnet channels have input/output for strings, but have
> output_char for one Unicode character, then I would say output_char is
> different from Camomile "put", because Camomile "put" is supposed to
> output one atom (for character channles, atom is char, not a Unicode
> character.)

Yes, in principle, they are different.

> Since I am convinced by Gerd's argument for close_in/close_out, I
> updates my proposal as
> (for input)
> ['a] object 
>      get : unit -> 'a 
>      close_in : unit
> end 
> (raise End_of_file when there is no more element to read.)
> 
> (for output)
> ['a] object 
>      put : 'a -> unit 
>      flush : unit -> unit 
>      close_out : unit -> unit
> end
> 
> for a character channel,
> (for input)
> object 
>        input : string -> int -> int -> int 
>        close_in : unit
> end
> 
> ([c#input s pos len] fills s from pos with less than [len] characters,
> and returns the number of characters really filled.)
> 
> (for output)
> object 
>        output : string -> int -> int -> unit
>        flush : unit -> unit
>        close_out : unit -> unit
> end
> ([c#output s pos len] outputs [len] characters from the position
> [pos])
> 
> But the distinction of put/input, get/output may be confusing.  Hmmm.

I am sure we are very close to a solution here. 

As another name for get/put we also have receive/send. The Event module
of the stdlib uses them.

Gerd
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