Subject: Re: scsh & a Posix SRFI
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 1999/02/21
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Message-ID: <7ap0he$7c5pg@fido.engr.sgi.com>
forcer <forcer@mindless.com> wrote:
+---------------
| The purpose of this Ports-SRFI would be to make string and soft ports
| (and a few other useful port functions) available using a general syntax.
+---------------

Then you might want to also look at MzScheme's soft ports, which they
call "custom ports":

	http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/PLT/packages/doc/mzscheme/node128.htm

MzScheme also has explicit string ports:

	http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/PLT/packages/doc/mzscheme/node126.htm

but they could also be implemented in terms of custom ports...


-Rob

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