Re: I/O streaming with custom data transport

[Maciej Sobczak <no.spam@no.spam.com>]

Alex R. Mosteo wrote:

> About traps, more complex streams may require special care: for example,
> imagine your characters are multi-byte and you receive an incomplete
> character code in the write function.

Sure.

But what about buffering the input/output. Is this already done (where?) 
or is this something I have to take care of?

Another issue - what about the text formatting? The standard Put(...) 
procedures are quite powerful, is there any way to reuse them (or at 
least their logic) with custom streams?

> Just a nitpick: in your example, instead of allocating a new stream I would
> simply get an access to a stack-allocated one:
> 
> declare
>    S2 : aliased My_Stream;
> begin
>    Write_Hello (S2'Access);
> end;

Yes, thanks.

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