[m-dev.] for review: stream I/O

[Ralph Becket]

>From Michael Day on 04/10/2000 13:19:50
> You don't - if string is an instance of one of the stream type classes
> then you can read or write to it directly, pass it in where a stream is
> expected, whatever. No set up should be required. (Though given the
> efficiency concerns of appending to strings maybe this will change).

[7 pint lunch disclaimer]

My concern is that for some applications it may be more efficient to
implement method foo for type t at the level of t rather than as a
wrapper and that this may be critical to performance.

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Ralph Becket      |      MSR Cambridge      |      rbeck at microsoft.com 

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