"Brian C. Barnes" <bcbarnes at austin.rr.com> writes:
> 1. The change document states that #\newline is being reinstated. Does this
> mean that #\linefeed is removed?
No.
> Nowhere in r5.95 report is #\linefeed mentioned,
It most certainly is mentioned, in the same place as always.
> A) Textual ports must not have a transcoder?
>
> Or
>
> B) Textual ports may or may not have a transcoder?
B
> I assume B, since if the answer was A, and since binary ports do not have
> transcoders, there would be no point in transcoders at all. If the answer is
> B, however, how does one go about opening a textual port without a
> transcoder?
Via `open-string-input-port', for example.
> The library documents say that opening a port with no transcoder, or
> with #f for the transcoder, results in a binary port, otherwise, the
> port is opened as a textual port (presumably using the transcoder that
> was given).
No, it doesn't say that. It says that opening a *file* works this way.
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Cheers =8-} Mike
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