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On Tue, 23 May 2006, Martin, Marc wrote:
> > Could you please elaborate? Bizzare in what sense? Bizzare or
> > simply difficult, as "beyond my comprehension" would suggest?
>
> Well, after all these years, I'm still not sure that I
> understand what a "Store" is!
If a user/developer does not understand, then it is a documentation
issue. From my experience it is not the Store that is difficult,
but rather the concept of a Domain of the Store. It is explained
in the documentation, but not thoroughly enough. A couple more pages
would probably be needed.
> Also, a robust ASCII file
> I/O didn't come with the framework (other than a trivial
> example showing how it could be done), so I had to
> write my own.
If a user/developer has to write ASCII I/O, then this points
to a missing library module, or perhaps not enough examples
how the I/O can be done. I also remember that I had to write my own
exercise. It is now part of Gr (a module GrAsciiDemo). As the comment
says, it is "partly based on ObxAscii example by Oberon Microsystems".
Probably the same example you are referring to.
Neither of the above supports saying that the framework is "bizzare".
Both are examples of insufficient documentation and/or examples.
Apart from ASCII, there is also another question how to read/write
an arbitrary binary file. It is somewhat similar to ASCII.
Here again I had to spend a little extra time when I developed
the Persistent Object Manager POM. Again, not the framework issue.
The framework offers all that is needed to do such things.
I just had to dig out the relevant info from both examples and
documentation.
File I/O is clearly a Frequently Asked Question. Would be helpful
if a collection of FAQs existed. A FAQ is not bizzare. Just standard
practice.
> > Is it at all possible to do both, move to .NET and keep
> > supporting legacy DLLs?
>
> Yes. One just has to convince the compiler writer to
> support it. :-)
In case of GPCP one needs backward compatibility with existing DLLs,
in case of BB one nees forward compatibility with .NET and 64 bits.
In each case, some compiler work is needed.
W.
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