Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix for #568

[Jim Ursetto]

On Feb 3, 2013, at 2:05 PM, Peter Bex wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 12:00:42PM -0800, Kon Lovett wrote:
>> On Feb 3, 2013, at 11:50 AM, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> That reminds me: in posixunix.scm the read-line code sets some slot
>>> number 5.  I was unable to figure out what this was for.  It seems to
>>> update it to the current position in the buffer while it's scanning and
>>> then resets it to 0 at the end, but this isn't used anywhere I could see.
>> 
>> ; 4    row (fixnum)
>> ; 5    col (fixnum)
> 
> Now the million dollar question is why other ports don't seem to be
> using this anymore.

They had better be using it, since it is relied on in
port-position, which worked when I tried it on a string
port and a file port yesterday...

Jim