From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA19083; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:35:44 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA18724 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:35:42 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from gatekeeper.elmer.external.excelhustler.com (gatekeeper.excelhustler.com [68.99.114.105]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3TFZejq004928 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:35:41 +0200 Received: from chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com (unknown [192.168.0.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com", Issuer "excelhustler.com" (not verified)) by gatekeeper.elmer.external.excelhustler.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07934E013F; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:35:40 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 743955C005; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:35:39 -0500 (CDT) Received: from wile.internal.excelhustler.com (wile.internal.excelhustler.com [192.168.1.34]) by chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C3425C004; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:35:38 -0500 (CDT) Received: by wile.internal.excelhustler.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6E8B223050; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:35:38 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:35:38 -0500 From: John Goerzen To: Benjamin Geer Cc: Richard Jones , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Common IO structure Message-ID: <20040429153538.GA14089@excelhustler.com> References: <20040428.004358.45522587.yoriyuki@mbg.ocn.ne.jp> <016501c42c73$24e64b30$ef01a8c0@warp> <20040428.015800.126758722.yoriyuki@mbg.ocn.ne.jp> <408EEE3E.7050008@socialtools.net> <20040428034415.GB19564@complete.org> <40902265.9040702@socialtools.net> <20040428214442.GE10198@excelhustler.com> <4090E597.1080603@socialtools.net> <20040429122305.GA6688@redhat.com> <40911AF6.7020105@socialtools.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40911AF6.7020105@socialtools.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-Scanned-By: clamscan at chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com X-Miltered: at nez-perce by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 2004:99 layered:01 api:01 buffering:01 api:01 instantiate:01 passing:01 extlib:01 ocaml's:01 unicode:01 standardized:01 wrote:03 object:03 object:03 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners