Just a by-the-way: I'm (now) aware of http://clojure.org/contributing and http://clojure.org/patches . I'll put my CA in the mail on Monday and pick this up again in the new year.
// Ben On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 23:33, B Smith-Mannschott <bsmith.o...@gmail.com> wrote: > Duck-streams does good job supporting character based readers and > writers, but doesn't do such a complete job with byte-oriented I/O > using InputStream and OutputStream. (The to-byte-array and copy > mutli-methods offer some support, but there's no equivalent to the > reader and writer multi-methods.) > > It occurs to me that we could refactor most of reader into an > input-stream multi-method, which could be useful on its own for > byte-oriented I/O. > The same is true of writer and output-stream. > > Also, reader and writer produce streams which are buffered, but accept > what the JDK defines as default instead of using *buffer-size*. > Perhaps that should be changed. > > input-stream and output-stream should, presumably also produce > buffered streams (perhaps only when (< 0 *buffer-size*). > > Has anyone already begun work on similar changes? I'd be interested in > feedback. Perhaps byte-oriented I/O was left out of duck-streams > intentionally. In the meantime, I've begun hacking on some private > branches of clojure-contrib to explore these ideas. I'll put something > up on github if my musings reach a usable state. > > In a library of my own, I've used stream decorator functions as below > to accomplish what hardcoding BufferedReader. into the reader methods > does: > > (-> x input-stream reader buffered) > > This has a nice feel of orthogonality, but I hesitate to incorporate > this idea it duck-streams because I'm doubtful that this approach > would gel stylistically with the rest of duck-streams. Thoughts? > > // ben > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
