[Scheme-reports] IO operations and random access Paul Pereira (23 Mar 2013 01:45 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] IO operations and random access John Cowan (23 Mar 2013 03:08 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] IO operations and random access John Cowan 23 Mar 2013 03:08 UTC

Paul Pereira scripsit:

> I think that the bytevector IO operations,
>
> (read-bytevector! bytevector port start end)
> (write-bytevector bytevector port start end)
>
> should be supplemented in the small language by random access
> functions, like set-port-position!.

It's simply too late for that, at least as far as R7RS is concerned.

> I think this may be planned for the large language.

Yes, it is.

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