Hi, I wrote an IO library, inspired by, and partly based on, Bulat Ziganshin's Streams library. The main aim of the library is to experiment with different design choices, especially emphasizing the following: * Many small classes * Iconv-friendly interface The source code and documentation can be found at: http://yogimo.sakura.ne.jp/ssc/ == Type structure The library tries to assign a different class for a different concept. For example, it distinguishes read-only streams from write-only ones, and seekable streams from non-seekable ones. As a result, the library provides a small and clean interface, so it ensures more type safety, and type signatures of stream-operating functions are able to carry more information. == Iconv friendliness Although Unicode is quickly becoming popular, there are still many widely-used, character-set-specific encodings. Therefore i18n-aware applications may have to handle a locale-specific encoding, which is not statically known. Then, using an external conversion routine, such as iconv, will be virtually the only possible way to go. The library's interface intaracts well with iconv and other c runtines. This also means that adding zlib functionality can be easy, for example. == Performance The library is currently not very fast. For example, typical repitition of putStr/getLine is 1.5x slower than the corresponding standard Handle operations. When you omit locking, the library performs roughly equally well to the standard Handle. == Any comments are welcome. Regards, Takano Akio