[R6RS] Changing the transcoding mid-stream

Michael Sperber sperber at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Fri Aug 18 09:01:33 EDT 2006


William D Clinger <will at ccs.neu.edu> writes:

> None of the examples at the end of the SRFI are alleged
> to perform binary i/o.  

I hereby allege that they do, except for "three-lines-string."

> The ones that appear to perform binary i/o use the procedures that,
> according to you, were not intended for binary i/o.

I think we're using different definitions of the word "binary I/O".
You seem to mean "untranscoded I/O" whereas I mean "I/O to and from
bytes objects and octets."  Is that a correct interpretation of what
you're asking for?

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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