
1 Mar
2004
1 Mar
'04
7:04 p.m.
Stefan Seefeld wrote:
Phil Richards wrote:
Filesystems are related to I/O, otherwise they serve no point.
uh, you could say the same about computers, too.
Great idea! We should put everything in "boost::comp" for "computational notions." ;-)
Obviously, everything is somehow related. Pushing the abstraction this far is IMO just one step too far.
I agree, and agree with David Abrahams in that "io" indeed indicates the input or output of data, which is quite different from the hierarchical beast called a file system... /David