[Alephmodular-devel] Files and libs and stuff

[Br'fin <br...@ma...>]

I'm working on revising the file abstraction stuff. My ISP was acting 
fruity, making some research awkward.

I'm finding myself looking at the situation of CFileRef. And sure, I 
could make it masquerade as a FILE*. However it seems the right thing 
to do would be to instead go with iostream. This is C++ after all. Ends 
up with the same basic effect, we're not writing wrappers to a bunch of 
other files.

Probably works out better too, everything outside of CFileDesc just 
treats the corresponding IF/OF stream version of CFileRef as a private 
declaration, not even available externally. :)


This does beg the question whether things like other related elements, 
ie sprintf, dprintf or such should be handled in any similar way. :)

-Jeremy Parsons