From: Dave Burt <dave@...>
Date: 2005-08-29T17:21:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Rio 0.3.3

(Sorry about the blank post prior to this)

Christopher wrote:
> The reason 'stdin:', 'stdout:", etc. are not documented, is that
> they are not currently part of the published interface. I also
> noticed that if you move the colon to the begining and removed
> the quotes, you have a symbol. I have not decided whether to have
> the string form, the symbol form or both be part of the
> documented interface.

I like both, and would like to have the option to use either. I prefer the 
symbol, but having the string be a key part of the concept of a Rio object, 
like a URL protocol, and showing up as such in #inspect, isn't a bad idea. I 
don't like the character/Fixnum; the brevity is good, but a single-character 
prefix in the string itself is shorter... maybe makes Rio less flexible, 
though - rio("!sort") for a cmdio?

Cheers,
Dave