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last call check Arthur A. Gleckler (05 May 2020 20:57 UTC)
Re: last call check Shiro Kawai (05 May 2020 21:26 UTC)
port positioning [was: last call check] Per Bothner (05 May 2020 22:22 UTC)
Re: port positioning [was: last call check] Shiro Kawai (05 May 2020 23:08 UTC)
Re: port positioning [was: last call check] Per Bothner (05 May 2020 23:15 UTC)
Re: port positioning [was: last call check] Shiro Kawai (05 May 2020 23:30 UTC)
Re: port positioning [was: last call check] Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (06 May 2020 12:07 UTC)
Re: port positioning [was: last call check] shiro.kawai@xxxxxx (06 May 2020 12:12 UTC)
Re: port positioning [was: last call check] Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (06 May 2020 12:19 UTC)
Re: port positioning [was: last call check] John Cowan (05 May 2020 23:53 UTC)

Re: port positioning [was: last call check] Per Bothner 05 May 2020 23:15 UTC

On 5/5/20 4:08 PM, Shiro Kawai wrote:
> One not-so-obvious consequence is that textual input/output port requires get-position/set-position!
> even the user won't call port-position/set-port-position!, if we adopt that peek-char doesn't move the
> position.  It's because write-char followed by peek-char must overwrite the peeked position, which
> means the custom port needs to move the position back before calling write!.

Is there any valid use-case for textual input/output ports?  Do they make any sense?  I doubt it,
certainly not enough to be in a Scheme standard.
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