Re: [Chicken-users] read-line

[Felix Winkelmann]

Joerg F. Wittenberger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found read-line working somewhat unexpected on network streams
> (where the ^M^J or the "apple" line feed rule applies): it inserts
> empty lines in between the line feed.
>
> Anybody who objects this change, which understands any of:
>  #\newline #\return 
>  #\return #\newline
>  #\newline
>  #\return 
> as line delimiter.  Sequences, though, should result in empty lines.

There is one little problem, though: when reading data
interactively, and we have normal (1-byte) line-terminators,
then your solution will have to read the next line from the user,
before it can process the current line.
I propose to add an optional flag to `read-line' that
states wether extra line-terminators should be consumed
or not (defaulting to not).


cheers,
felix