William Tanksley, Jr wrote:
> What if binary were the default, but different filters could be
> attached to a binary stream to modify how it behaved?
That's how Dan's API is implemented internally right now.

"foo.txt" utf8 <file-reader>

is equivalent to

"foo.txt" (file-reader) utf8 <decoder>

(file-reader) is the platform-specific hook here.

It could be renamed to <binary-reader> or something and documented, 
promoting it to 'user-level' status.

Slava

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