Re: [PATCH] Add preliminary versions of the R7RS libraries along with documentation and tests

[Mark H Weaver]

Freja Nordsiek <address@hidden> writes:

> Also, I found one error in the get-output-bytevector procedure in
> (scheme base), which was that the procedure discarded the bytes
> already written. get-output-bytevector is not supposed to be
> destructive to the bytes already written, but the R6RS output
> bytevector reading procedures are destructive. I made a patch with a
> very simple fix, which is to just write the bytes back.

Ah, good catch!  I'd like to fix this in a different way though: instead
of removing the bytes and then adding them back, I'd prefer to modify
r6rs-ports.c to support this (read-only) operation directly.

     Thanks,
       Mark