[swift-evolution] Pitch: Replacement for FileHandle

[Aaron Crespo]

Just in case: https://www.openradar.appspot.com/radar?id=5046886029328384

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Charles Srstka via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> On Feb 15, 2017, at 10:52 AM, Tony Parker <anthony.parker at apple.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Charles,
>
> Have you happened to file a radar for Foundation that I can look up (for
> both this and process)?
>
> We are working hard on making sure that our API is right for Swift, and
> areas like this where we can make fairly trivial improvements are things
> that we can try to prioritize. As you say, the purpose of
> swift-corelibs-foundation is to present a unified API and prevent the need
> to fork. That means the best possible solution is to improve the API in
> Objective-C (where exceptions-as-control flow is wrong too) first, and then
> naturally flow that into Swift.
>
> Thanks,
> - Tony
>
>
> Honestly? I don’t remember. I feel like I would have sometime around 2005
> or 2006 or so, since that’s probably about when this first started
> bothering me, but it’s been a decade, so my memory is hazy. I do know that
> in the meantime, “considered harmful”-type articles have been written about
> these classes, like this one from eight years ago:
>
> https://mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2009-11-13-dangerous-cocoa-calls.html
>
> If you think it will actually prompt someone to change this, I’d be happy
> to write up a new one, although I figure it would almost certainly just get
> flagged as a duplicate.
>
> Charles
>
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