On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 20:52:49 -0500, BLM768 <blm...@gmail.com> wrote:
Ultimately, I think that the differences between our designs boil down to having a more monolithic stream interface with an internal stream source or having a lighter-weight but more ad-hoc stream interface with an external and more exposed stream source. At this point, I'd probably be happy with either as long as they have equivalent functionality.
One thing to remember is that streams need to be runtime swappable. For instance, I should be able to replace stdout with a stream of my choice.
This isn't possible if we only use compile-time API (i.e. templates). But that doesn't preclude us from having templates and ranges on TOP of those streams.
When it is all finished, I think it won't be that bad to use. -Steve
