Subject: Re: missing stream operations... From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 1999/06/25 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3139321996294370@naggum.no> * David Bakhash <cadet@acs.bu.edu> | CL seems to be lacking... you're staring at a C legacy, where characters _are_ bytes, and you conclude that Common Lisp is lacking a feature from C? hello? | Other languages don't make such a distinction about binary streams | vs. character streams. yes, they do. C is relatively unique in not having a character concept. | Does anyone know how to get the equivalent what #'peek-byte[-no-hang] | would do? use LISTEN and read one byte if returns true. not sure this is a spoiler, but Allegro CL 5.0.1 has bivalent streams so people who have to talk C protocols can do it in Common Lisp, too. #:Erik -- @1999-07-22T00:37:33Z -- pi billion seconds since the turn of the century