> Perl 5.7.x has such a library, and it's my expectation (another sideways > glance at Dan) that if we did Parrot, it would include this library. > PerlIO attempts to be a very portable stdio (it's running on everything > that Perl runs on, AFAIK) and it supports "line disciplines" in the sfio > sense: you can stuff processing modules between the file and the > filehandle. This allows us to do anything between altering buffering > semantics, and decompressing and decrypting files on the fly. Great! > It'll need to be somewhat rewritten for Perl 6, at which point I'm > hoping it'll be done in such a way that it'll make it easier to extract > from the Perl mess around it and be made available to other projects. I hope that even if the Parrot goal is to support all languages, PerlIO can be made a separate and independent project, not relying on Perl internals. (And I'd change the name, but maybe that's asking too much. :-) --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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