Florian Dietz <floriandiet...@googlemail.com> writes:
> I am writing a serializer for some objects and I can't seem to be able
> to write and read both bytes and strings to the file. It's an
> either-or question, depending on what type of stream I take.

> Am I overlooking something? What is the best way to do this?

Florian Dietz <floriandiet...@googlemail.com> writes:
> I am writing a serializer for some objects and I can't seem to be able
> to write and read both bytes and strings to the file. It's an
> either-or question, depending on what type of stream I take.

> Am I overlooking something? What is the best way to do this?

> Florian Dietz <floriandiet...@googlemail.com> writes:

> > I am writing a serializer for some objects and I can't seem to be able

> > to write and read both bytes and strings to the file. It's an

> > either-or question, depending on what type of stream I take.

> > Am I overlooking something? What is the best way to do this?

> There is no standard way. Many implementations support "bivalent

> streams" that can take both binary and character operations. In the

> absence of bivalent streams, it's typical to use a binary stream (with

> an element type of (unsigned-byte 8)) and convert characters and strings

> to the appropriately encoded octet vector before writing them to the

> stream.

> Zach

Florian Dietz <floriandiet...@googlemail.com> writes:
> Am Freitag, 26. Oktober 2012 13:07:09 UTC+2 schrieb Zach Beane:
>> Florian Dietz <floriandiet...@googlemail.com> writes:

>> > I am writing a serializer for some objects and I can't seem to be able

>> > to write and read both bytes and strings to the file. It's an

>> > either-or question, depending on what type of stream I take.

>> > Am I overlooking something? What is the best way to do this?

>> There is no standard way. Many implementations support "bivalent

>> streams" that can take both binary and character operations. In the

>> absence of bivalent streams, it's typical to use a binary stream (with

>> an element type of (unsigned-byte 8)) and convert characters and strings

>> to the appropriately encoded octet vector before writing them to the

>> stream.

>> Zach

> Thanks, I went with this and wrote some macros.