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Marc Feeley scripsit: > But with SRFI 91 you do gain the ability to mix reading bytes and > reading characters on the same port. Rather than a design in which byte ports *are* character ports, I'd prefer a design in which character ports are *constructed from* byte ports. Advantages: Byte ports do not have to carry about character-port attributes such as encodings, so they are more lightweight; Character port attributes can be immutable, since if you don't like the current character port, you can ask for a new character port on the same byte port (this requires a character-port procedure to return the underlying byte port if any); Character ports that aren't backed by byte ports are not a special case. In order to do mixed-mode I/O, you require unbuffered character ports, though the underlying byte ports can be buffered or unbuffered. (In any case, I'd like to see evidence that buffering characters as opposed to bytes is a Good Thing.) -- Where the wombat has walked, John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> it will inevitably walk again. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan