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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Notes from the PDM in Chicago
From: keisial@gmail.com (Keisial)

Elizabeth M Smith wrote:
> yes Hannes - interfaces for userland implemented streams would help
> people trying to figure out if they have all the methods they need for a
> particular stream type (SeekableStream et al) - this would be backward
> compat (you wouldn't HAVE to implement the interfaces IIRC, at least not
> right away) but would help things along - Sara had the general ideas for
> how this would be done.
>
> rough draft sounds good - code?
>
> Thanks
> Elizabeth Smith
>   
While dealing with the streams interfaces, what about making the api
saner, too?
All those bucket and brigade functions make streams unnecessarily complex
to deal with.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.stream.php