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Re: Why are byte ports "ports" as such?

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Subject: Re: Why are byte ports "ports" as such?
From: Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak@knm.org.pl>
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 17:54:37 +0200
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"Jonathan S. Shapiro" <shap@eros-os.org> writes:

>   1. The correct primitive is READ-CODEPOINT, not READ-CHAR.
>      READ-CHAR is a library routine.

Unless char is defined to be a code point. Which is IMHO the most
reasonable choice: code points are the natural atomic units of Unicode
text, and most Unicode algorithms are expressed in terms of code points.

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