[Dynamite] Is this working now then?

[Ian Holmes]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Ewan Birney wrote:

> Annoying part of CORBA spec -
> 
> FILE's are not directly supported so you have to roll your own which
> look like
> 
>    interface MyReadFile {
> 	string get_next_line; // undefined length. Yuk.
> 	};
> 
>    interface MyWriteFile {
> 	void write_line(in string);
>    };
> 
> This drives everyone nuts and people roll their own all over the shop
> (look at the Gnome bonoboo spec for an example of this. If we go for
> file support inside our stuff - this is what we should use).
> 
> 
> Re: string or FILE -
> 
> I settled on FILE because then you can have one dump easily chain 
> to the _dumps on its sub-object and everthing work well. Of course
> strings are nicer for the smaller objects, files for the larger
> ones.

OK, this actually soothes my fears...

MyWriteFile is better than string, because MyWriteFile can actually be a
*wrapper* for a string, so both cases are covered. OTOH, a C FILE
structure can't be a wrapper for a string, AFAIK.