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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: read-all ?
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:15:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877gn5zih2.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y5fyt7tn.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Sat, 12 Jan 2013 22:22:44 +0100")

Hi,

On Sat 12 Jan 2013 22:22, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> skribis:
>
>> I find myself writing (read-delimited "" p) to slurp in a file as a
>> string, but it's not a very straightforward way to say that.
>>
>> What about `read-all'?  We could add it to `(ice-9 rdelim)', I guess.
>> R6RS calls this `read-string-all'.
>
> Sounds like a good idea.

Patch attached.  I didn't update the docs because it wasn't clear to me
that (ice-9 rdelim) is actually the right place to put it.

What do you think?  Should we perhaps put it in a new (ice-9 ports)?
Are the names right?

I started by writing it in C but I noticed the C was doing a very stupid
get-and-set algorithm, so I figured it got no advantage and we should
just write it in Scheme from the get-go.

Andy
-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-22  9:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-12 17:34 read-all ? Andy Wingo
2013-01-12 21:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-22  9:15   ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2013-01-22  9:51     ` Andy Wingo
2013-01-22 10:01       ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-22 11:04         ` Andy Wingo
2013-01-22 13:32           ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-22 15:16             ` Andy Wingo

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