Re: Proposed change to `make-readline-port'

[Dirk Herrmann]

On 3 Mar 2001, Neil Jerram wrote:

> `make-readline-port' in (ice-9 readline) can be seen as combining two
> pieces of functionality:
> 
> (i) constructing a character-based port from a line-based reader that
>     reads a whole line at a time
[...]
> The first piece (i) is useful in other, non-Readline scenarios as
> well.  In particular, I've been using (i) in work to create an input
> port from a GtkEntry widget.
> 
> Therefore I propose to split (i) into a new module, (ice-9
> line-port), whose main export is a procedure called `make-line-port'
> and to modify `make-readline-port' to use `make-line-port'.

Good idea.  But, I think a better name could be chosen, like for example
line-buffered-port.  Or, maybe something else?  Finding good names is
always difficult.

Best regards,
Dirk