On Tue 22 Jan 2013 10:15, Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:

> 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