[m-dev.] string streams and formatting

[Fergus Henderson]

On 19-Jan-2000, Michael Day <mcda at cat.cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> What I'm really
> looking for here is comments on the approach I've taken towards output,
> replacing write and write_binary with a single write. It works for me.
> Does it have any crippling flaws that other people can see? Is it too hard
> to use? Is it unclear? Is it inflexible?

One of the intentions behind the existing design was to use the
static type system to provide improved error detection, in particular
detecting if you try to do text output on a binary stream or
vice versa.

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