Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp

[Stefan Monnier]

>> The two don't have to be competing.  Instead I expect they'd be
>> used together (by extending your proposal to allow a file-handle
>> as "output port").
> There is not much of an incentive to have explicit file handles if
> you can establish all of the necessary redirections without them.

Piping the output of one process to the input of another, maybe?


        Stefan