Generic and type safe I/O model in any language
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I am looking for an I/O model, in any programming language, that is generic and type safe.
By genericity, I mean there should not be separate functions for performing the same operations on different devices (read_file
, read_socket
, read_terminal
). Instead, a single read
operation works on all read
-able devices, a single write
operation works on all write
-able devices, and so on.
By type safety, I mean operations that do not make sense should not even be expressible in first place. Using the read
operation on a non-read
-able device ought to cause a type error at compile time, similarly for using the write
operation on a non-write
-able device, and so on.
Is there any generic and type safe I/O model?
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