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Re: ice-9 lineio read-char versus unread-string
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: ice-9 lineio read-char versus unread-string |
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Tue, 13 May 2003 13:46:16 -0400 |
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Neil Jerram <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>> "Marius" == Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:
> Marius> The (ice-9 lineio) module was there to fix a deficiency in the
> core
> Marius> ports and the original author expected it to be removed somewhen.
> Marius> Maybe we should just do that. Anybody?
>
> The (poor) comment doesn't say what that deficiency was. Does anyone
> know? And if so, has it been fixed?
The functionality of (ice-9 lineio) is duplicated in the built-in
unread-string and the (ice-9 rdelim) module. So, not knowing the
actual history, I would guess that (ice-9 lineio) predates them. In
that case, now that we have those two, it would seem that lineio is no
longer needed.
paul