Per Bothner scripsit:
> Suggestion: For non-binary ports allow the use of any arbitrary
> integral "magic cookie" as the position. One could also allow
> an arbitrary value (such as a record), though that reduces the
> "typeability" of these procedures. However, that would allow
> a straight-forward wrapping of C's fgetpos/fsetpos.
Go with the arbitrary object. As someone who's had to put up (in two
separate systems) with textual files that can't be indexed by a single
integer (short of Goedel-numbering tricks), I firmly believe such a
cookie should be completely opaque.
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But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Eowyn I am, Eomund's daughter.
You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless.
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Received on Thu Mar 15 2007 - 17:12:22 UTC