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From: Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Writing an Operating System in Ada
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:50:43 -0800 (PST)
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On Jan 12, 3:39=A0pm, nobody <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote:
> Shark8 wrote:
> > The problem about having no I/O is that there are some file-formats
> > which ARE sequential-in-nature as opposed to Random-access/Record-in-
> > nature: Midi and Huffman encoding (actually MOST compression would
> > fall here) are to examples off the top of my head. Or am I
> > misunderstanding what you mean?
>
> That is just implementation details that should(can) be hidden from the
> application code. Stick to the objects. Don't forget associations.

Aren't associations rather trivial if we derive all files from some
base tagged-type and use the tag as the type-identifier?