Re: ice-9 lineio read-char versus unread-string

[Paul Jarc]

Neil Jerram <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>> "Marius" == Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:
>     Marius> The (ice-9 lineio) module was there to fix a deficiency in the 
> core
>     Marius> ports and the original author expected it to be removed somewhen.
>     Marius> Maybe we should just do that.  Anybody?
>
> The (poor) comment doesn't say what that deficiency was.  Does anyone
> know?  And if so, has it been fixed?

The functionality of (ice-9 lineio) is duplicated in the built-in
unread-string and the (ice-9 rdelim) module.  So, not knowing the
actual history, I would guess that (ice-9 lineio) predates them.  In
that case, now that we have those two, it would seem that lineio is no
longer needed.


paul