On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Matthew Mondor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mm_lists@pulsar-zone.net">mm_lists@pulsar-zone.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div id=":pl">If the output elt type can be byte, and the input elt type be<br>
character, as well as the converse, and that external-format is taken<br>
in consideration (and configurable) with encoding happening during<br>
character->byte and decoding during byte->character, then indeed this<br>
would work.</div></blockquote></div><br>They would work as current character streams, which accept both character and byte input and outputs. The tricky part is guessing the appropriate character and byte sizes for arbitrary sequences, and make sure the user supplies the right values for formats. Quite boring to code but would exactly implement what you wrote in the previous email.<br>
<br>Juanjo<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC<br>c/ Serrano, 113b, Madrid 28006 (Spain) <br><a href="http://juanjose.garciaripoll.googlepages.com" target="_blank">http://juanjose.garciaripoll.googlepages.com</a><br>