[Scheme-reports] Fwd: I/O

[Vincent Manis <vmanis@x>]

I've been using email since the early 1970s, you'd think I'd know how to use it properly by now. This was meant to go to the list. 

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From: Vincent Manis <vmanis@x>

Date: 2011 May 2 01:23:37 PDT

To: John Cowan <cowan@x>

Subject: Re: [Scheme-reports] I/O

On 2011-05-02, at 01:08, John Cowan wrote:

Vincent Manis scripsit:

If WG2 is planning on providing READ-U16 et al, then I withdraw my

suggestion. If not, I reaffirm it. :)

There's no current plan to provide higher-order read and write

operations, but there will be higher-order blob operations, and the read

and write operations are named consistently with the blob operations.

The names offend my aesthetic sense precisely because of this, I think of reading from a binary file as getting an octet from the file and returning it as a u8 value (i.e., binary files contain octets rather than u8 values). I suspect I'm on the wilderness on this one, and therefore withdraw the suggestion.

-- v

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