On Sep 14, 2009, at 4:05 PM, John Cowan wrote:

> The alternative is to make binary ports and text ports *completely*
> disjoint, with the consequential duplication of all the procedures for
> managing them.


Not all. You don't need the equivalent of `with-open-input-file', for  
instance, since `current-input-port' would never sensibly be set to a  
binary port. You can also use the same procedure for closing a binary  
port.
--
Brian Mastenbrook
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http://brian.mastenbrook.net/


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