Re: read-all ?

[Andy Wingo]

Hi,

On Sat 12 Jan 2013 22:22, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> I find myself writing (read-delimited "" p) to slurp in a file as a
>> string, but it's not a very straightforward way to say that.
>>
>> What about `read-all'?  We could add it to `(ice-9 rdelim)', I guess.
>> R6RS calls this `read-string-all'.
>
> Sounds like a good idea.

Patch attached.  I didn't update the docs because it wasn't clear to me
that (ice-9 rdelim) is actually the right place to put it.

What do you think?  Should we perhaps put it in a new (ice-9 ports)?
Are the names right?

I started by writing it in C but I noticed the C was doing a very stupid
get-and-set algorithm, so I figured it got no advantage and we should
just write it in Scheme from the get-go.

Andy
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