Why is tango.io.UnicodeFile an island?

JarrettBillingsley Joined: 06/21/06 Posts: 26

Posted: 05/29/07 03:39:38 By that, I mean: why isn't it derived from anything? I can create a UnicodeFile?, and read the entire contents, but I can't hook it up to the rest of the IO API. Should this be implemented as a Filter or something? I don't know why I'd make a new scripting language. I mean, I might as well just draw some lines in the sand with a stick.

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kris Joined: 03/27/04 Posts: 581	Posted: 06/02/07 07:08:23 UnicodeFile? is meant as a companion to File. The underlying UnicodeBom? code could be used to build an stream filter, but no-one has written one :)