layers of abstraction or simple, flat implementation

[Erik Engbrecht]

I think the file api I've been working on may have a significant amount of unnecessary complexity stemming from the separation of abstract interfaces defined in traits from the concrete implementations based java.io.File.  Right now I think I'm going to chop it all down to a single set of concrete implementations that wrap file.

Any objections?

[Josh Suereth]

None from me.   There's probably no useful abstraction that could be re-used across .NET + JVM, so I figure a concrete implementation with a nice API is a better way to go (the API could be ported).  Seems like a good move.

What do you think of the Stream abstractions?

- Josh