Hello Takano, Wednesday, June 14, 2006, 4:42:25 PM, you wrote:
work, every bit of Simon's critique about monolithic Stream class was taken into account
Yes, I deliberately published the library in the early stage, in order to show the design to you and other people interested in the area. If the design will be used by the Streams library, I will consider it a success and be satisfied. Otherwise, I will develop it into a fully-featured library.
how about redesigning Streams 0.2 library? i've just uploaded current state-of-the-art as http://freearc.narod.ru/StreamsBeta.tar.gz it also requires http://freearc.narod.ru/ArrayRef.tar.gz to be installed we can ask Simon Marlow to establish darcs repository for the lib
about your example of using UTF8+Latin1 encoding on one stream: it shouldn't work for using any encoding AFTER UTF8 (i don't have Unix, so i not compiled your lib and don't make actual tests). imagine that first 10 bytes in file represent 8 UTF8 chars. after decoding, these chars will be represented by 32 bytes (8 UTF-32 values). when you make sCleanup, library just can't know what those 32 bytes read from intermediate buffer correspond to 10 bytes in lower-level stream
Thank you for pointing out the design flaw. I'm going to fix it.
how? :) i think it is impossible -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com