On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 09:36:01 -0800 Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: > > A lower layer is also needed -- simple Swifty wrappers for the > > Unix system calls so that Swift implementations can get at them > > without having to use unsafe constructs. open(2), read(2), > > write(2), lseek(2) and close(2) would provide about 75% of what > > one needs for the higher layer stuff (and everything one would > > want for stdio) with quite minimal hacking. > > I agree, but I foresee problems in the future when Swift is ported > to Windows. :/
I'm a big believer in not prematurely generalizing an implementation. APIs last a long time, implementations can be redone later. :) -- Perry E. Metzger pe...@piermont.com _______________________________________________ swift-users mailing list swift-users@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users