SRFI 81: Port I/O

by Michael Sperber

status: withdrawn (2006-11-20)

keywords: I/O

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Abstract

This SRFI defines an I/O layer similar in nature to the ports subsystem in R5RS, and provides conventional, imperative buffered input and output.

The layer architecture is similar to the upper three layers of the I/O subsystem in The Standard ML Basis Library.

In particular, the subsystem fulfills the following requirements:

• buffered reading and writing
• binary and text I/O, mixed if needed
• the ability to create arbitrary I/O ports from readers and writers

It builds on the Primitive I/O layer specified in SRFI 79 (Primitive I/O).