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External Resources

Slate includes an extensible framework for streams that deal with external resources, such as files or network connections or other programs. This generally relies on having a representative object in the image which tracks the underlying primitive identity of the resource, and also provides methods for iterator-style streams over what is available through the resources. Many of these resources aren't sequences as files are sequences of bytes, so they're asynchronous and behave differently from ordinary streams.



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Brian Rice 2004-08-24