Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone automate stdio

[Timothy Brownawell]

On 5/19/05, Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 07:13:11PM -0500, Timothy Brownawell wrote:
> > It uses operator>>(istream, string) . So items are whitespace
> > separated, and whitespace is ignored.
> 
> Not so good; items could conceivably contain whitespace...
> 
> I have this slighly unusual quirk; I can't stand process spawn apis
> that take a string instead of a list of strings.  Drives me batty...
> why would anyone ever _do_ that? ;-)

How about a series of <length> colon <string> items, like we were
thinking for the output?
7:parents40:0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01234567

Tim