Alaric Snell-Pym scripsit: > >True, but the delimitation of the string is format-specific: fixed > >length, counted, and NUL-terminated are all in use. That's not > >something a general-purpose package can easily handle. > > ...no, but a general-purpose package ought to provide the tools to > handle these problems, or else it's not so general-purpose :-)
Sure. But it's easy to layer such things over binary ports, without turning the binary ports into R5RS textual ports. And we can't get rid of those, because IEEE Scheme has them. The alternative is to make binary ports and text ports *completely* disjoint, with the consequential duplication of all the procedures for managing them. -- If you have ever wondered if you are in hell, John Cowan it has been said, then you are on a well-traveled http://www.ccil.org/~cowan road of spiritual inquiry. If you are absolutely [email protected] sure you are in hell, however, then you must be on the Cross Bronx Expressway. --Alan Feuer, NYTimes, 2002-09-20 _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
