Re: [Chicken-hackers] Suggestion for the ports unit: port-pipe

[Peter Bex]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 03:19:34PM +0200, Thomas Chust wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I think this would be a useful addition indeed.
> 
> Looking at the SchemeCrossReference[1] and the PLT Racket manual[2] I
> find that Gauche, Racket, Scsh and STk all have a procedure compatible
> with the signature (copy-port source destination) where source
> satisfies input-port? and destination satisfies output-port?. If
> CHICKEN got a procedure for the same purpose, I think it would
> definitely make sense to make it compatible with this calling
> convention as well.

Isn't this what the sendfile egg does?

It currently doesn't handle custom ports as input ports, but that
could be added.

Cheers,
Peter
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