Canonical/Idiomatic in memory files

[Paulo Pinto]

On Wednesday, 29 May 2013 at 07:32:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/29/2013 12:02 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
>> On Tue, 2013-05-28 at 22:33 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>> […]
>
> You just need to get the component programming religion! and 
> get away from using FILE*. There isn't anything fundamentally 
> different from using a fake FILE* and using a template with a 
> different InputRange. If that's still unacceptable, you can 
> create an InputRange that is a class with virtual functions 
> empty(), front(), and popFront(), then use derived classes for 
> the File or string.

One of the things that made me a fan of OO, was when I understood
the types of file manipulations that were possible with the IO 
abstractions
available in most languages in comparison with was is possible in
a pure procedural world.

Sure iostreams, Java IO, .NET, Smalltalk might offer complex IO 
models, but
they are quite powerful for doing generic code over abstract data 
sources.

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Paulo