On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:24:40AM -0800, Lawrence Crowl wrote: [....] > >> All of these functions come in two forms. > >> > >> function (FILE *, item_to_dump, formatting) > >> function (item_to_dump, formatting)
Since we have switched to C++, it would be really nice to have dump functions writing to a C++ std::ostream Plugins would be very happy if the output stream was a C++ one (at least MELT certainly will be happy). Otherwise, they may spend a lot of boring effort to make that happen (and fmemopen is less standard than std::ostream). So please, let's dump to some std::ostream; it is much easy to use other streams (e.g. ostringstream-s) for other purposes (I am guessing that every language binding to plugins -we have MELT, Python, Lua, already....) will be really happy to at least be able to output to some memory buffer (and with ostream-s, we have much more). Ideally, we could have some default formatting and even get some operator << .... Cheers. -- Basile STARYNKEVITCH http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/ email: basile<at>starynkevitch<dot>net mobile: +33 6 8501 2359 8, rue de la Faiencerie, 92340 Bourg La Reine, France *** opinions {are only mines, sont seulement les miennes} ***
