Hello, I have been asked by Jonathan D. Turkanis to take a look at his iostreams library that is currently in review for inclusion in Boost. He asked me because I presented a paper at ACCU in 2003 about adding a filtering capability to iostreams aloing with a very convenient notation to sting filters together using the vertical bar (|) as is done in UNIX. I had very little time to do a decent review (busy working on the Netherlands Unix Users Group's conference about system administration and network engineering - see www.sane.nl it will be great!), but I think I have a good impression of the structure. 1) The library fills in some (for me) much needed gaps in the standard iostreams library. Especially being able to use a (pre-opened) filedescriptor is important to me (since attach() was not included in the standard). 2) The filtering idea I have great feelings about - I wouldn't have written an article about that kind of thing if I didn't like the idea ;-) I would like the vertical vbar (akin to UNIX'pipe notiation) were also available, but I heard that Jonathan has already worked on that. In general, I think his approach is far, far better, more evolved and complete that my own try, that was only meant as a proof of concept. What I would like: a good user-level manual. The documentation is filled with quite some standardeze (and rightly so - it should be exact!). But users may not see the full strength of the library if they are not introduced to the library using some user-oriented documentation. So, my conclusion: I hope the submission of the library to boost is succesfull - the library would be most helpfull. JC -- ___ __ ____________________________________________________________________ |/ \ Jan Christiaan van Winkel Tel: +31 24 3527252 jc@ATComputing.nl | AT Computing P.O. Box 1428 6501 BK Nijmegen The Netherlands __/ \__/ __________ http://www.ATComputing.nl/image/midfotos/jc.jpg _________