@ASCII-only can you help me design the I/O STDLIB

I am not sure how we want to do it

hmm ok

brb in 10 mins

Not sure how to unify things like Files + Streams

also inheritance is not super-powerful right now. It's relatively limited (dynamic dispatch is not yet supported) but we can still have the designs in place

file should be subclass of stream

@ASCII-only so how would that work

because in C a File is a stream

hmm

well it's basically a stream but you can create one with path

@ASCII-only shold packaeg names be lowercase or uppercase e.g.: import Goat or import goat

hmm

I'd do the same as public variables

?

like if public variables are lowerCamelCase make package names like that too

see Java vs C# conventions

public variables are lowercamel case yea

yeah then I'd say make packages lowercase

ok

@ASCII-only should it be import IO

so that will import things like File()

I was thinking for like file API to be like:

```
let file = File(path: "/path/to/goat.png")
```

i'd say import file maybe

because stdin/stdout is IO too

I guess you could do like import module IO.File

@ASCII-only yeah, I'm still not sure on how to do streams

@ASCII-only should STDIN be a static property, a global?

i feel like it should be static

but not sure of what

File :P

so like File.stdin.write("hello, world!", encode: .ascii)

yeah

what should be way to get input

File.stdin.read(.line)

that is too long

i'd prefer for it to be a global but that is probably ugly