On 07/25/2017 10:54 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/25/2017 8:26 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
A suite of safe wrappers on OS primitives might be useful.
The idea of fixing the operating system interface(s) has come up now and
then. I've tried to discourage that on the following grounds:
* We are not in the operating system business.
* Operating system APIs grow like weeds. We'd set ourselves an
impossible task.
* It's a huge job simply to provide accurate declarations for the APIs.
* We'd have to write our own documentation for the operating system
APIs. It's hard enough writing such for Phobos.
* A lot are fundamentally unfixable, like free() and strlen().
* The API import files should be focused solely on direct access to the
APIs, not adding a translation layer. The user of them will expect this.
* We already have safe wrappers for the commonly used APIs. For read(),
there is std.stdio.
The standard library would not be in the position to provide such, but
the project seems a good choice for a crowdsource and crowdmaintained
library. -- Andrei
