[Chicken-users] Re: stream API (was busy-wait in tcp-connect)

[Dan Muresan]

> Not sure what you mean. As opposed to text streams?

Binary streams as in binary data, as opposed to text.

> > Calling read-char repeatedly is probably not efficient; besides, 
> > read-char may not be the same as read-byte (if utf8 is loaded).
>
> Actually 'read-byte' uses the builtin 'read-char' when the utf8 egg is 
> loaded. I was wrong about ##sys#custom-*-port not working w/ UTF8, at 
> least in the broader sense. Excellent.

1. I can't find the documentation for read-byte. I didn't even realize 
that read-byte existed. What i meant was that read-char might read 
multiple bytes, when the programmer wanted to read a single byte of 
binary data.

2. You did not address the other point -- calling read-char repeatedly 
is probably not efficient. I think being able to read binary data 
efficiently is mandatory for a language that's supposed to be practical, no?

Best,
Dan