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- From: john@physiol.su.OZ.AU (John Mackin)
- Subject: Re: random rant on random files
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.100735.7594@physiol.su.OZ.AU>
- Organization: Department of Physiology, University of Sydney, Australia
- References: <9208130624.1.11214@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 10:07:35 GMT
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- In article <9208130624.1.11214@cup.portal.com>,
- vanMeule@cup.portal.COM writes:
-
- > I feel a little upset at Scheme for lack of direct support in
- > most Schemes for random files.
-
- Without in any way endorsing the original poster's desire to make
- Scheme into the new COBOL :):), I too was surprised and disappointed
- that R4RS Scheme doesn't have a seek function to apply to ports. I
- have an application where I need to read a (large) file line-wise
- backwards, and the only Scheme I can code it in at the moment is
- Scheme->C where I have access to libc. That's great, but hardly
- portable. Does anyone know whether this is being considered for
- the future of Scheme? On a more general note, is there any way
- (perhaps a mailing list to subscribe to, or something) that people
- in general can find out what _is_ being thought about for R5RS?
-
- --
- John Mackin <john@physiol.su.oz.au>
- `No Franz Lisp executable file should EVER be stripped.'
- - Franz Lisp manual, VAX UNIX
-