Re: Stackable ties

2000-08-04 Thread Robin Berjon
At 16:24 03/08/2000 -0700, Peter Scott wrote: >Is it at all possible to define interfaces for tie-ing that would >facilitate stacking? Do we care? I think we should care, notably for tied handles. It would be very useful to be able to pipe ties easily. -- robin b. Always remember you're uniq

Re: Stackable ties

2000-08-03 Thread Simon Cozens
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 12:36:35AM -0500, J. David Blackstone wrote: > Perhaps stackable tie-ing and stackable filehandles can both be > implemented as specific examples of something more general. Perhaps, but I find it unlikely; stackable filehandles has to happen at a much lower level. Althou

Re: Stackable ties

2000-08-03 Thread J. David Blackstone
Peter Scott wrote: > > I'll say up front that I have no good idea as to how to implement this, > hence the lack of RFC, but I think it's worth getting the ball rolling to > see if there's enough collective intelligence and inclination to make > something happen. > > OO inheritance is well define

Stackable ties

2000-08-03 Thread Peter Scott
I'll say up front that I have no good idea as to how to implement this, hence the lack of RFC, but I think it's worth getting the ball rolling to see if there's enough collective intelligence and inclination to make something happen. OO inheritance is well defined and the ways of implementing