NAME ^

classes/parrotio.pmc - Parrot IO

DESCRIPTION ^

These are the vtable functions for Parrot IO.

Methods ^

METHOD INTVAL say(STRING *s)

Print the string with newline appended to SELF or to stdout if used as class method

METHOD PMC *open(STRING *file, STRING *mode, STRING *layer)

Open the file with the given mode and use the IO given layer.

void class_init()

Class initialization.

METHOD INTVAL eof()

Return 0/1 according to eof state of the object.

METHOD void flush()

Flush pending writes.

METHOD INTVAL setbuf(INTVAL)

XXX TBD

METHOD INTVAL setlinebuf()

XXX TBD

void init()

Initializes the IO PMC.

void destroy()

Destroys the IO PMC, flushing and closing as necessary.

PMC *clone()

Clones the IO PMC.

For now both PMCs refer to the same ParrotIO object. If we have different IO layers, we might copy data and struct_val.

INTVAL get_bool()

Returns whether at EOF or not.

STRING *get_string_keyed_int(INTVAL n)

Return the name of the nth layer. n >= 0 returns layer names up from the bottom. If n is negative returns layer names from top down. For non-existing layers an empty string is returned.

void push_string (STRING *value)

Push the layer name value onto the PIO's layer stack.

STRING *pop_string ()

Pop a layer off the PIO's layer stack. Returns the layer name.

HISTORY ^

Initial version by leo 2003/06/23.


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