wrong reply button.<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ben Wing</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:ben@666.com">ben@666.com</a>&gt;<br>Date: Nov 13, 2006 5:39 PM
<br>Subject: Re: Lisp Stream API.<br>To: Aidan Kehoe &lt;<a href="mailto:kehoea@parhasard.net">kehoea@parhasard.net</a>&gt;<br><br></span>and btw there is already an interface for databases (open-database, etc.) but that's obviously not very line-oriented.
<br><span class="sg"><br>ben</span><div><span class="e" id="q_10ee3b0a683b1e3a_2"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ben Wing</b> &lt;
<a href="mailto:ben@666.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ben@666.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
because no one got around to doing it.&nbsp; exposing the lstream api into lisp was one of the things on my &quot;big etl list&quot; that didn't happen.&nbsp; i didn't think of following the common-lisp api but i bet it's not that different from lstreams.
<br><br>(and do you really want to deify mr. &quot;hand of god&quot;?)<br><span><br>ben</span><div><span><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Aidan Kehoe</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:kehoea@parhasard.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">kehoea@parhasard.net
</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>Can someone explain to this no-formal-education-in-the-language Lisp user
<br>why we don't have (with-open-file ...) and the rest of the Common Lisp<br>stream API in XEmacs Lisp? (insert-file-contents ...) with offsets doesn't<br>really cut it for things like Perlish line processing.<br><br>--
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