Io

[sdm900]

Crack a tinne (...) returns an open tinnie/file
Swig tinnie to read a line
Sip tinnie to get a character
Wif tinnie to find out where the file Pointer is at

[sdm900]

Chuck tinnie to close
Skull tinnie to read to eof

[bbrk24]

Somewhat relatedly, GIMME always prints a newline after whatever you give it. Is there any way to write without a trailing newline?

[zackradisic]

@sdm900 love the analogy of file handle <-> beer 😂, what about writing to a file? That would answer @bbrk24's question, then we can give an ability to write to stdout without making a new line.

Right now the only thing I can think of that aligns with the analogy of beer is TOP UP.

Also should we make this a part of the syntax or a built-in?

Part of the syntax:

I RECKON stdout = CRACK A TINNIE "stdout";
TOP UP stdout "message without a new line"

Standard library:

IMPOHT ME FUNC TopUp
TopUp(stdout, "message without a new line")

[sdm900]

Shotgun tinnie for non blocking io

[sdm900]

Funnel tinnie for buffered io

[sdm900]

Carton is the file system.

Gander carton for statfs
Gander tinnie for stat

[sdm900]

Somewhere in this io stuff there has to be a Bob Hawke reference.

[roblogic]

Need to use BOOFHEAD or DRONGO for something as well