From -2551661908073078864 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,975e78bef1b26ee8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: Oleg Zabluda Subject: Re: iostream -> FILE* Date: 1998/05/23 Message-ID: <6k4shq$gpl@marianna.psu.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 355779220 Approved: Fergus Henderson References: <3561480D.18DAE41D@acco.net> <6jv28m$u37$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6k0nmi$sfb$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> X-Original-Date: 22 May 1998 18:00:26 -0400 X-Server-Date: 23 May 1998 01:20:32 GMT Organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.std.c++ iQBFAgUANWZzDuEDnX0m9pzZAQEkTgF8Cbdjekt4p7wE937U7HTY96e3/ilVVPVF eduQwG1koe0DiC9AIBOfHqcsDPyLP1Pv =T5E0 Reply-To: zabluda@math.psu.edu (Oleg Zabluda) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Andrew_J ROBBIE wrote: : But huge amounts of code are written for un*x systems - systems for : which C++ programmers need a standard way of doing things. Couldn't : there be stream specialisations for each API? And couldn't the : standard provide an 'example' specialisation for posix-type systems? : Sure, compilers can provide extensions, but can't compiler vendors : be guided in the same direction? The C/C++ language standard is produced by ANSI/ISO C/C++ language standartization committies. Unix/Posix extentions are created by other people for totally different purposes. It is not a job of a language committee to provide a Posix API as well. Now that C++ standard is really close, I hope Posix people will come together and define Posix extentions and possibly Posix C++ API. The former would include an ability to extract a file descriptor from an fstream, and the later would include a good C++ interface for common Posix C functions and structures. Oleg. -- Life is a sexually transmitted, 100% lethal disease. --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://reality.sgi.com/austern_mti/std-c++/faq.html ]