Re: EOF condition?

[Taylor Campbell <campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, March 3, 2003, at 04:13 AM, Michael Sperber [Mr. 
Preprocessor] wrote:
> The behavior upon EOF of the R5RS I/O primitives is already defined
> to be non-exceptional, so that doesn't make sense.  It might be
> feasible to create a subtype of &READ-ERROR, but that doesn't seem
> very useful.

Ahh, reading the 'Abstract' section of the SRFI document again I see 
that it was
designed specifically and explicitly for R5RS I/O primitives to raise, 
and thus
nothing not related to them was in it.  (In some code I was writing a 
while ago,
instead of quietly returning an EOF object when it was met while 
parsing from a
stream, I intended to raise an EOF-related condition, and thought that 
perhaps
I should look in this SRFI for something of that sort.)

> Taylor> or should this SRFI be amended?
>
> Note that there's no way to amend a SRFI after it's been finalized.

True, but after noting the existence of a post-finalisation mailing 
list for
each SRFI, I was put under the impression that perhaps something 
vaguely similar
to that could maybe be done.  Apparently not.

> --
> Cheers =8-} Mike
> Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla