From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Common IO structure
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:44:42 -0500

> > >Python is simple.  One standard for everything.  You get read(),
> > >write(), readline(), readlines(), xreadlines() (hello Extlib, this one's
> > >for you), seek(), etc.  This can apply to files, strings, sockets,
> > >pipes, whatever.  Before we can start fussing about unicode
> > >abstractions, I think we need to have a uniform I/O layer.
> > 
> > OK, but then you can leave out readline(), readlines() and xreadlines(), 
> > because they don't make any sense unless you've already dealt with 
> > character encodings.
> 
> No, they can simply be implemented in terms of read().

It will break when UTF-16/UTF-32 are used.  The line separator should
be handled after code conversion.  At least that is the idea of
Unicode standard.  (But Since Unicode standard is challenged by
reality in every aspect, maybe nobody cares.)

--
Yamagata Yoriyuki

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