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On 24-Apr-14 19:22, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>
> If one supplies user-defined 'Image, we'd pretty much have to support
> user-defined 'Value as well. (You wouldn't have to use it, of course). It's
> rare that only one way I/O is needed. Of course, this ups the effort for
> composition a lot. I don't think I could support user-defined 'Image without
> user-defined 'Value -- it seems asymetric to me.

At that point it sounds like we're getting into the Stream attributes -- 
though it would be nice to have a secondary IO channel. The distinction 
is, of course, that user-defined 'Image/'Value would be more geared 
towards text rather than the generality of streams.