On 2011-05-02, at 01:08, John Cowan wrote:
Vincent Manis scripsit:
If WG2 is planning on providing READ-U16 et al, then I withdraw my
suggestion. If not, I reaffirm it. :)
There's no current plan to provide higher-order read and write
operations, but there will be higher-order blob operations, and the read
and write operations are named consistently with the blob operations.
The names offend my aesthetic sense precisely because of this, I think of reading from a binary file as getting an octet from the file and returning it as a u8 value (i.e., binary files contain octets rather than u8 values). I suspect I'm on the wilderness on this one, and therefore withdraw the suggestion.
-- v