Andy Wingo scripsit: > Why allow current-input-port to be a binary port? I would not do that.
Why forbid it? Some programs deal exclusively with binary input. > Likewise I don't see why read-u8 and friends would default to a textual > port. It is not necessarily an error to invoke read-u8 on a textual port, if it is also a binary port. We expect both to often be the case. -- John Cowan [email protected] http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Most people are much more ignorant about language than they are about [other subjects], but they reckon that because they can talk and read and write, their opinions about talking and reading and writing are as well informed as anybody's. And since I have DNA, I'm entitled to carry on at length about genetics without bothering to learn anything about it. Not. --Mark Liberman _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
