On 2016-05-20 08:55, Jens Alfke wrote:
On May 20, 2016, at 7:33 AM, Ken Burgett via swift-users
<swift-users@swift.org> wrote:
the required C struct morphs into a Swift class, with a member
function 'as_C_byte_array' which answers an array of the required
form. Internally, this function will shift and mask class attributes
in order to build the necessary result.
It would be nice to see Swift acquire structured-data I/O APIs as
found in languages like Ruby and Python — these take a printf-like
format string and parameters, but read and write values in binary. The
format syntax offers modifiers to specify things like byte order,
string encoding, etc. This is so much more reliable and readable than
doing the encoding by hand.
—Jens
Hi Jens,
I understand the value of strong typing from a runtime point of view,
but I really miss the quickness and simplicity of writing a class in
Ruby, where duck-typing is king.
--
Ken Burgett
Principal Software Engineer
Email: k...@iotone.io
Office: 530.693.4449
Mobile: 831.332.6846
URL: www.iotone.co
_______________________________________________
swift-users mailing list
swift-users@swift.org
https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users
