On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 21:31 +1000, skaller wrote: > On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 02:59 -0700, Erick Tryzelaar wrote: > > On 9/23/07, skaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Gotcha. I was thinking along those lines. What I'm thinking is that we > > have a three layer system for doing os interactions. First, is a > > low-level lightweight wrapper of the native c/c++ apis. Second, we > > have a high level portable wrapper of the low level stuff. Finally, we > > have high level convenience apis written using the portable middle > > layer. I'll write more tomorrow since it's late. > > Yes, I agree with this model.
BTW: the problem is how to 'select' the appropriate platform dependent low level wrapper. Using conditional compilation sucks .. ;( -- John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net> Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Felix-language mailing list Felix-language@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/felix-language
