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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
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Subject: Re: why not
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Well, if there is some way to get 'Input and 'Output to work on the
structures, I'd consider that to be A Good Thing. That pretty much solves
the problem because you can use all the Stream stuff to get things into a
file or a pipeline if needed. If we're proposing requirements for a standard
component library, I'd offer support of 'Input & 'Output as one of them.

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"Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message
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>
> Mark Bond did a BSc project on this; see
> http://www.pushface.org/components/bc/contrib/bond/
>
> I haven't progressed this further. Personally I would probably do it
> as an alternate form of storage management (which it clearly is).