Re: [Chicken-users] DBI

[Peter Bex]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:47:08AM -0500, Graham Fawcett wrote:
> Yes, input port was what I was thinking. Thanks. The input port would
> return the body of the LOB and return #!eof when it's consumed.
> 
> The "Chicken blob or string" options are redundant, so the revised
> proposal is to represent a LOB with a thunk that evaluates to an input
> port.

Why the thunk? (why not directly the port?)

Cheers,
Peter
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