Tango 0.99 Released

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"renoX" <renosky at free.fr> wrote in message news:4699FE56.5000905 at free.fr...
>
> I couldn't find this on the documentation, what's the difference between a 
> stream and a conduit?
>

A Conduit is an interface to some kind of IO device.  An InputStream is 
_anything_ from which data can be read, and an OutputStream is _anything_ to 
which data can be written.  Conduits can expose input and output streams, 
but other examples of streams are Buffers and Filters.  Readers and Writers, 
then, simply read or write data from or to streams.  This way you can set up 
readers or writers on _anything_ which can be read or written, and not just 
conduits and buffers anymore.  This also makes it possible to make more 
generic functions and classes, by just having them use Input and 
OutputStreams, rather than having to specialize for Conduits, Buffers, 
Filters, etc.