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- Path: sparky!uunet!psgrain!percy!data!kend
- From: kend@data.rain.com (Ken Dickey)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
- Subject: Re^2: random rant on random files
- Message-ID: <704@data.rain.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 16:56:19 GMT
- References: <9208130624.1.11214@cup.portal.com> <700@data.rain.com> <TMB.92Aug18171257@arolla.idiap.ch>
- Organization: Microtek DSD, Hillsboro, OR
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- tmb@arolla.idiap.ch (Thomas M. Breuel) writes:
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- >What is wrong with binary streams?
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- Nothing. But Scheme is not a store description language (like C/C++),
- and does not have a binary interface defined. I have no problems with
- making a "location pointer" and reading memory with a port interface.
- I prefer not to have to reset such a pointer at every random i/o.
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- It is trivial to build a port interface on top of stores.
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- -Ken
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