Dave,

I think your IOHandles are similar to Craig's ExternalResources.
What I was trying to say is that the prefix *External* is not a very 
good choice because not always a Device is external. For instance, my 
TCP/IP stack has sockets that are not external, and in SqueakNOS we have 
a SerialPort that is internal (as it's completly implemented in the 
Squeak image and doesn't have any form of "external handle"). So, in my 
very humble opinion, I think we should come up with some other name that 
does not include the word 'External'. 'Device' perhaps is a good name. 
I'm not sure..

Luciano.-


David T. Lewis wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 11:36:09AM -0800, Luciano Notarfrancesco wrote:
>>my sockets are polymorphic with 
>>ExternalResources (so I can use'em with NetStreams), but they are not 
>>*External*. As a matter of fact, I ended up calling them 
>>InternalTCPSocket and InternalUDPSocket to avoid name conflicts.
>>
> 
> I wrote IOHandle (http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/996) some time
> ago as a way to separate the representation of external IO channels
> from things like FileStreams and Sockets. I have not touched this code
> in more than a year, so I am sure that it has gone out of date by now.
> My changes were made to the base Squeak image, not to Flow, so I don't
> know if this is useful. I would be happy to update it if either of you
> thinks it would help.
> 
> Dave
>  
> 
> 




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