On Feb 22, 2006, at 9:32, MrJoltCola wrote:
Obviously there is another camp that feels that everything needs to be
implemented in low level C and special PMCs for each HLL and funky
APIs everywhere
- did I miss the high level C release?
- "special PMCs for each HLL": - just no: one general c
Just to add my 2 cents here, I've always felt that there should be basic
primitives provided, and the HLL can take care of the rest. Technically the
low-level IO routines don't have to know about encoding or compression
schemes at all. A VM provides the building blocks, and you can add whatever
I'm a bit slow coming back to this, sorry.
It seems that "seek" is used in two ways:
* returning to some previously identified point (including the start or
end of the file)
* moving a given number of characters you want to move relative to a
known location
Clearly you can al
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 07:18:55PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 03:22:11PM +0800, Steve Gunnell wrote:
>
> > 5) Seeking through an encoding filter could be highly problematic.
> > Filters such as "utf8" that have a non-deterministic byte per character
> > ratio should pol
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 03:22:11PM +0800, Steve Gunnell wrote:
> 5) Seeking through an encoding filter could be highly problematic.
> Filters such as "utf8" that have a non-deterministic byte per character
> ratio should politely refuse seeks.
In theory it ought to be possible to seek back to any
Steve Gunnell wrote:
Hi People,
Back in December I asked a question about utf8 I/O. Leo responded
pointing me at the encoding filters. I then published a possible
implementation of PIO_utf8_read with a request for comments.
Since that time I have been thinking about the testing and
implementati
Hi People,
Back in December I asked a question about utf8 I/O. Leo responded
pointing me at the encoding filters. I then published a possible
implementation of PIO_utf8_read with a request for comments.
Since that time I have been thinking about the testing and
implementation of I/O filters. Actu
