Possible changes to connections

Hi,

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Jeffrey Horner <jeff.horner at vanderbilt.edu> writes:

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

When I originally implemented connections in R 1.2.0, I followed the model
in the 'Green Book' closely.  There were a number of features that forced
a particular implementation, and one was getConnection() that allows one
to recreate a connection object from a number.

[...]

Another issue is that the current connection objects can be saved and
restored but refer to a global table that is session-specific so they lose
their meaning (and perhaps gain an unintended one).

What I suspect is that very few users are aware of the Green Book
description and so we have freedom to make some substantial changes
to the implementation.  Both issues suggest that connection objects should
be based on external pointers (which did not exist way back in 1.2.0).

Sounds great! I would also like to see the following interface (all or
in parts) added for working with connections from C. This is an update
to the patch I created here:

http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=developers:r_connections_api

I wanted to voice a "me too" for wanting to see an interface added for
working with connections from C in package code.  There are a number
of places where this would be useful and provide cleaner solution than
what is possible today.

The proposed interface looks useful.

+ seth

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