Hallo, On 10/26/07, Elf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > heh, none of these are going to work everywhere. all posix extensions are > custom. the only i/o procs in the standard are call-with-[input|output]file, > with-[input|output]-to-file, current-[input|output]-port, > [input|output]-file?, > [open|close]-[input|output]-file, write, display, read, load, eof-object?, > newline, and the lovely and never implemented transcript-[on|off]. i know > im missing some (character one, prolly), but the point is that the standard > basically only says 'you need to be able to interact with the system' in terms > of its i/o specification. there has never been a general posix.1003 or > posix.2 > srfi submitted (or at least there has never been one posted). >
Yes, that's why a low-level egg is needed that uses POSIX where available and (sigh) the Win32 API in Windows systems. In the ideal world I would use only POSIX OSes, but unfortunately I can't and I'd rather use scheme everywhere. Cheers, -- -alex http://www.ventonegro.org/ _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users